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Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19

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Supply chains have been disrupted, businesses have had to close or operate at limited capacity for months, and even founders have had to expand their fundraising timeframes as we saw in our 2020 Female Founders Data Report. The post Our Investment Framework Post-COVID-19 appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Event Driven Growth

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Each situation is different but a framework I like is to take your pre-event baseline, your event driven peak, and assume you will give up half of the delta when things return to normal and that will be your new baseline. USV TEAM POSTS: Albert Wenger — Apr 18, 2020 A Plan for Rapidly Ramping COVID19 Testing.

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New Year, New Entrepreneurs: Five tips for supporting early-stage entrepreneurs ?

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In 2020, we convened industry experts for a SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation, Inclusive Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building: Moving into Action to discuss insights and best practices around providing inclusive entrepreneur support.

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Equity Dive: Edtech’s 2020 wakeup call

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A framework for how to think of higher education’s main three products (including which is most defensible over time). We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun , Eschaton founder and college drop-out Ian Dilick , and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions.

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Rosetta

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Our portfolio company Coinbase released an open source framework for crypto asssets to make it easier to list them on crypto exchanges. An open source middleware framework like Rosetta should make it much easier for exchanges to list new assets and allow them to support new assets more quickly. It is called Rosetta.

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To guard against data loss and misuse, the cybersecurity conversation must evolve

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In healthcare alone, 2020 saw 640 breaches , exposing 30 million personal records, a 25% increase over 2019 that equates to roughly two breaches per day, according to the U.S. Conventional DLP solutions are built on a castle-and-moat framework in which data centers and cloud platforms are the castles holding sensitive data.

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Opsera raises $15M for its continuous DevOps orchestration platform

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Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases.