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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat. Network Up. Prices down.

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NEC X Accepting Applications for Elev X! Ignite Venture Studio

American Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs with innovative ideas utilizing NEC’s technologies and businesses can move their ventures forward into seed-ready startups upon acceptance into NEC’s Elev X! Venture Studio. The Silicon Valley venture studio now seeks founders and their teams for its upcoming program set up for those ideating or in the prototyping phase.

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Setting Kids Up to Fail

This is going to be BIG.

You''re required to be a lot more entrepreneurial, which requires you to build your own networks in order to get customers and collaborators, since these functions won''t be under the roof of a big company anymore. It''s like when people ask me how to get into venture capital. Venture Capital & Technology'

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The Five "Ups" of Getting Early Stage VC Deal Flow

This is going to be BIG.

These are water cooler events and perhaps more of an opportunity to engage collaborators than it is to find something and close a deal. If you believe in a 100% efficient market for venture, then better founders will speak to better investors than you before they come to youso networking with other VCs in the front of the line is beneficial.

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The Underwhelmingness of Facebook

This is going to be BIG.

Wikipedia is probably the greatest thing humans have ever collaborated to produce online. Facebook, despite the fact that I use it everyday, is probably the online network I could most easily do without. Facebook used to have network pages where you could explore people you didn''t know. Venture Capital & Technology'

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The Business of Who Makes is Changing

This is going to be BIG.

GrabCAD helps CAD designers collaborate and leverage off of each other''s libraries. It''s also the same bet that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures made with Makr --that enabling more people to be more creative could be revolutionary. Venture Capital & Technology' Etsy is a marketplace for things you make.

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The State of Startup Collaboration at Large Health Systems | 2020 Survey

Dream It

Dreamit Ventures and MedCityNews teamed up to get a pulse on the current appetite for innovation at large health systems across the United States. Luke’s University Health Network, among others. By Elliot Levy , Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Book Office Hours with me.

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