Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Wallets are the gateway to crypto and have funneled millions into consumer apps that have driven web3 adoption. Data companies continue to achieve astronomical growth. Large software companies accelerated growth this year, despite their scale reinforcing the notion that users write data into systems but rarely delete it.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Other classic examples of brands that embody a deeper identity: Apple, which has come to reflect innovation and simplicity; Nike, athleticism and empowerment; and Red Bull, adventure and adrenaline. Employ a data-driven approach to product creation and customer engagement. A few strategies I’m bullish on below.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Check out some of the Ann Arbor companies with the biggest growth, best funding and most innovative products to watch into 2022. million in funding recently , they expanded their team that is creating security solutions for businesses focused on ransomware attacks and data breach protection and resolution. DocNetwork. Refraction AI.

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StartupNation

JULY 7, 2025

At its core, market research is all about gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data about a target market, competitors, and the industry as a whole. But to get the best market research, you need to be sure you’re collecting the right data for your business. And the key to unlocking that right data is asking the right questions.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We can plug in from anywhere, digitally interact with anyone, and track and analyze more data than ever before. Our Rise of the Rest bus tours have created a space where we can hear these entrepreneurs’ stories, experience their innovations, and understand the heartbeat of their cities firsthand. or the hard numbers, metrics and KPIs?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

A crypto company’s journey to Data 3.0. Data is a gold mine for a company. However, most companies are stuck in Data 1.0. A crypto company’s journey to Data 3.0. A crypto company’s journey to Data 3.0. How to recruit data scientists without paying top dollar. Logical in Lagos.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Among the most notable activity is emerging from the College of Engineering, Ross School of Business, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts – respectively the homes of the Center of Entrepreneurship , the Zell Lurie Institute , and optiMize. Notably, Twilio recently became a publicly-traded corporation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

LG’s innovation center — LG Nova among friends — today announced that it has selected the first 50 companies for its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. From 1,300 applicants, the company picked its first cohort to start building opportunities with the startups. CurieAi, Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While emerging companies are often started by technically minded founders and funded by VCs for their data-driven approaches to product and growth, the irony is that these companies are often using less data and rigor when it comes to hiring talent than more traditional, less data-focused companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

With a background in cross-border deal advisory, knitting together experiences covering Fortune 500 companies from a structured finance perspective to impact-driven direct investing and consultancy for early to growth-stage companies in emerging markets, she brings a unique financial perspective to the world of tech startups.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

As we entered 2021, I wrote about the big question on every startup’s mind for 2021: How will a cataclysmic event such as a pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? Well, spoiler alert: We’re nearing the end of yet another pandemic year, and it seems like this state will be our world for longer than I’d like to predict.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

So it replaced top-down curriculums with analytics-driven growth strategies, becoming consumed by an ethos that has more recently been dubbed product-led growth. Tyler Murphy, having graduated from his intern position at Duolingo launching the company’s iOS app, noticed that the gaming world was rapidly innovating around him in the mid-2010s.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Enter Alchera: A tech-driven company spearheading innovation by weaving its proprietary AI technology into multiple sectors. Alchera has formed a strategic alliance with PG&E, a western-based power conglomerate, offering “Fire Scout,” a state-of-the-art forest fire monitoring system.

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HPA

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This innovation is critical; the existing scientific research model must keep pace. Despite her busy schedule preparing for the U-M Annual Data Science & AI Summit scheduled for November 13-14, 2023 , she generously shared her perspective, shedding light on the promising future of AI in scientific advancements.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“I initially got into web3 through verifiable credentials and data provenance in the enterprise market,” said Atul Ajioy, a partner at Horseshoe Capital. Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

So I first got interested in social networking, and then, through my experience at Quora, we started out with a product that was entirely human-driven. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. It wasn’t at the point where you were going to be able to make something that was ready for consumers.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 8, 2021

Quantum computing presents an unprecedented hazard to conventional data encryption. Key length has increased to today’s state-of-the-art 2048-bit keys, which are considered unbreakable by classical computers, but not for quantum computers. Startup of the Week: QuantLR, low-cost quantum encryption. Azerbaijan Investment Co.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

For those involved in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) industry, a notoriously relationship-driven business, this has meant in-person boardroom handshakes have been replaced by video conference calls, remote collaboration and potentially less travel in the future. billion blank-check deal with DPCM Capital. Walter Thompson.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

This is the art of conversion: improve your site’s conversion and you simultaneously increase operating leverage AND increase competitive differentiation – a truly powerful combination. Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” Basic conversion is easy to understand.

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Angel Capital Association

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

With this generous support we have begun taking mission driven action and we are excited to update you on our progress. AIF’s established mission is to advance the art and science of angel investing to accelerate innovation and economic growth. towards the set $2.3M Dr. Margaret Bacheler with Bill & Ann Payne.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

More importantly, without you, our economy would be weakened and society’s ability to innovate would be stunted. We are deeply grateful to our dedicated volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise and dedication to our mission. Without this support, many early-stage companies wouldn’t get off the ground.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 5, 2024

His impact as the Founding Chair of its Education and Smart Practices Committee has meant that thousands of Angel investors, ecosystem builders and entrepreneurs have been touched by his dedication not only to the art of angel investing, but by his contributions to the body of smart practices.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 11, 2020

3) Artificial Intelligence and Data Transparency. Today’s software and CRM systems give incredible visibility and sales insights to business owners who want to make data-driven decisions, based on accurate knowledge of what their customers really want. The new decade is bound to bring another 10 years of incredible change.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

David Brooks has a great op-ed this morning on the Philosophy of Data. He argues that data offers one major advantage and one major drawback. Data enables humans to discover patterns otherwise unobservable by our senses/intuition or patterns that violate human intuition. Great innovations can come from both disciplines.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 8, 2024

Incredible Organizational Change, Growth and Advocacy: a Look at the ACA Success and Goals For 2024 Despite the volatility brought about by the pandemic, economic uncertainty, market fluctuation, bank failures and a myriad of other difficulties, the ACA has powered through to continue to be the voice for the art and science of angel investing.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2021

Startup of the Week: MeMed’s blood test results in minutes. Expecting Israel’s first $100B company. Lessons for Launchpad from Xometry’s $3B IPO. Nanox acquires Zebra Medical Vision in $200M deal. D-ID powers photo animation for Josh video platform in India. CropX acquires Dacom in major European expansion. Introductions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

“Google data centers deliver nearly 4x more computing power per unit of electricity compared to just 5 years ago. Photographing an object and circling it is the state of the art today, but imagine recording a video and your own voice at the same time as a way of catalyzing a workflow or task. But it can be just as meaningful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. billion across 412 deals in 2021, more than double the amount of capital invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub.

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Red Rocket

AUGUST 3, 2021

Goals setting is one of those business processes that is really an art. I was recently introduced to Matt Roberts , the founder of London UK based ZOKRI , whose software helps fast growth companies use Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) driven goals and agile working practices to provide clarity on how growth will be delivered.

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OurCrowd

JANUARY 31, 2021

Jasper uses technology and alternative data instead of the industry’s long-established credit score when approving applications, looking at where applicants are going, rather than where they have been. “We Startup of the Week: Jasper credit cards for reliable people. Japan’s Kubota invests in Tevel Aerobotics. Classiq raises $10.5M

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Unvalidated Learnings

JUNE 8, 2017

As such, the history of the MP3 gives an excellent framework to anticipate how disruptive 10x innovations impact a market, and who the winners and losers of such breakthroughs will be. The MP3 is a perfect case study of Innovator’s Dilemma. It provides a fascinating account of how a relatively obscure scientific breakthrough?—?the

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 10, 2024

Intro We have long believed that AI will fundamentally reshape biotech and healthcare, positioning us at the brink of an AI-driven Industrial Revolution. Here, the AI Scientist emerges as a game-changer, automating literature reviews, analysis of experimental data, and hypothesis generation, with potential to achieve superhuman capabilities.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While games are rendered in real-time on end-user devices based on input, VFX/animation shots are rendered offline in data centers and “pre-canned.” Around the same time that Unreal Engine (“UE”) was being developed, Pixar released RenderMan, which was the state of the art offline renderer for CGI/animation.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” In other words, buyers aren’t seeking AI for AI’s sake.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

” Previously a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Cacioppo co-founded Nebula Labs, a software development house, before joining Dropbox as a product manager on Dropbox Paper. Notably, CrowdStrike invested in the extension along with a number of individual investors. That’s been good for business. billion by 2028.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Besides serving traditional students with field trips and art classes, a maturing sector is now branching out to offer software tutors, cooking classes and singing lessons. In the United Kingdom and Europe, government innovation programs have helped entrepreneurs close higher numbers of Series A and B rounds.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. 36:30 – Why is credit card data so messy? 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 29:00 – Finding good data scientists who work from first principles. Kevin is partner at YC.

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