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Collaborative Disruption at the DoD with Kathleen Hicks and Sharon Weinberger

Andreessen Horowitz

It’s an area where a lot of companies are trying to innovate. First of all, I think it’s about our 165th attack on us using those sorts of techniques, largely UAS, but a variety of techniques. Without the budget, it’s very, very hard for us. We are using everything we have.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? New York has quickly become one of the best places in the world to start a company, but if you look at demographics, Brooklyn is a unique area whose innovator and maker population outnumbers most other cities in the country. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be.

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The Future of Hospitality is Here

Revolution

Yet, technology adoption within the real estate community as a means to fundamentally disrupt how physical assets behave and how transactions occur was lagging up until the last couple of years. There is something inherently exciting about this growth and the opportunities it implies. It is about building and recreating communities.

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Lessons Learned, Experience Gained: Ruminations on Mark Small’s Journey from Salesperson to Sales…

Jason Malki

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. They inspired and motivated, cultivated innovation and creativity.

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Placer.ai, a location analytics startup, finds $100M at a $1B valuation

TechCrunch

Many of us are moving around these days a lot less than we used to — because of COVID, we’re working from home instead of an office; and we are traveling and going out less. The round is coming from an interesting mix of strategic and financial investors. Placer has confirmed that the round values it at $1 billion.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

I want to thank my coauthor Akshat Dixit , a rising senior at North Carolina State University, intern at Versatile VC, and past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, NC. . Columbia , University of Washington , NYU ) have mounted formal efforts to promote interdisciplinary innovation.

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Shop Circle wants to keep Shopify merchants from going ‘round and ‘round finding apps they need

TechCrunch

We want every merchant selling online to use our tools to run and superpower their stores.”. There was also some venture debt mixed in, and TriplePoint Capital provided that. At the same time, it’s fun to build in silence without too much disruption. We wanted to be the ‘Microsoft for e-commerce merchants.’

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