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Keeping It Simple

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Investing is humbling. At 60, with 35 years of venture investing experience, I still get most things wrong. Which is why I like to keep things simple. And when I do I am rewarded. My friend Gordon asked me last night how I got into Bitcoin. I told him the story of how I bumped into Rikki Tahta walking through the garment district in NYC in the spring of 2011 and Rikki told me he was working on a Bitcoin startup.

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Sequoia debuts Arc, a London/SV program to find and mentor outlier startups, backing each with $1M

TechCrunch

Sequoia has over the years made a name for itself for its early-stage bets on younger companies, many of which (Apple, Klarna and WhatsApp, to name a few) have gone on to become tech giants. Now, as competition heats up among investors to work with the most promising startups earlier, and the field of the founders hoping to build and launch companies gets wider and wider, the firm is taking a new approach.

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Nepalese PE firm Team Ventures invests in AI healthtech startup WISEYAK

AsiaTechDaily

Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet? Register Nepalese alternative investment firm Team Ventures has invested about $250,000 in artificial intelligence (AI)-based healthtech startup WISEYAK. WISEYAK has developed an AI and Machine Learning (ML) technology-based platform that offers unique solutions to Clinical Decision Support across the healthcare industry in a unified platform.

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The App Store Model Comes to Web3

Tomasz Tunguz

Six months ago, I wrote about how the cap tables of crypto companies have approached the structure of web2 startups. Recently, EVMOS , a web3 project, pushed forward an important innovation for the web3 ecosystem. EVMOS enables Ethereum’s virtual machine on the Cosmos chain. The EVMOS token model innovates on its predecessors by introducing the App Store dynamics to web3.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

Lack of digitalization decreases business competitiveness. To thrive, embracing modern solutions becomes essential. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security. The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods.

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Paldara Pharmaceuticals founders on a mission

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Paldara Pharmaceuticals founders on a mission to make the world a better place through health care innovation. By Scott Meacham. For the eighteenth consecutive year, Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition is under way. The Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup , underwritten by Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores , has become an important underpinning of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Oklahoma.

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What Is the Metaverse and Is It Safe To Ignore the Hype?

Smart Hustle Magazine

The evolution of technology continues to march forward. This evolution, for the most part, is providing new and better tools for the improvement of communication. One of the technologies, receiving a lot of attention is the metaverse. This “term” often goes hand in hand with crpyto, blockahin and NFTs. Last week I was at Social Media Marketing World and listened attentively to a session about the metaverse.

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Lune offers an API to calculate carbon emissions at checkout

TechCrunch

Meet Lune , a new startup that wants to expose CO2 emissions calculations so that customers are better informed when they purchase something online. When companies start using Lune’s API, they can also let their customers pay a fee to finance a carbon neutralization project. Before founding Lune with Roberto Bruggemann, Stadigh previoulsy worked for VC fund Crane.

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What Makes Social Media Posts Captivating? 5 Key Things.

Smart Hustle Magazine

According to research , over 3.6 billion people use social media worldwide, a number projected to increase to almost 4.41 billion in 2025. With such a massive presence of people on social media channels, businesses can’t afford to miss the huge opportunity of reaching wider audiences through social media marketing. It doesn’t matter whether you run a traditional store or online business , social media marketing is of utmost importance.

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[Xage Security in Yahoo News] CORRECTION — Xage taps industrial solutions provider, evopro systems engineering, to expand reach in European market

OurCrowd

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In a release issued under the same headline March 3, 2022 by Xage Security, please note the incorrect URL was attributed to “evopro systems engineering” in the first paragraph. The corrected release follows: Read more here. The post [Xage Security in Yahoo News] CORRECTION — Xage taps industrial solutions provider, evopro systems engineering, to expand reach in European market appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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[People.AI in The Wall Street Journal] Ukraine Tech Startups Pivot From Software Code to Rescue Plans

OurCrowd

Anton Kolomyeytsev stood at Romania’s border with Ukraine, waiting for his mother and families of employees of his technology company, which just weeks earlier had been based in Kyiv. Read more here. The post [People.AI in The Wall Street Journal] Ukraine Tech Startups Pivot From Software Code to Rescue Plans appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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