A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 2, 2020
I am a fan of the slow and steady approach to building a business. I call it “crawl, walk, run.” I have seen many founders try the “run right away” approach and it is super hard to make that work. An example of “run right away” would be to raise a $30mm seed round, hire a couple of hundred employees, and go for broke.
Berkonomics
JULY 2, 2020
At the MIT Center of Collective Intelligence, professors and graduate students are wrestling with an important opportunity – and gaining ground. With new collaborative tools available for use in the cloud, people are no longer isolated in their creative endeavors. Some label this “crowdsourcing,” a term used to describe one form of this new empowerment.
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Continuations
JULY 2, 2020
In my book World After Capital , I propose a theory of history in which technology changes the binding constraint for humanity. After hundreds of thousands of years of the Forager Age, constrained by the availability of food in the natural environment, humanity invented agriculture. With that set of technologies (planting, irrigation, domestication of animals, etc.), invented roughly 10,000 years ago, the constraint shifted from food to land in what became the Agrarian Age.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
To adapt to changes in client behavior and requests and employee collaboration, banks need to look seriously at communication software, cyber protection, open APIs, cloud infrastructure, and deeper data-driven thinking, said Dan Bennett, Managing Partner of OurCrowd Australia, during a session on the future bank during the investment platform’s recent virtual OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference.
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Surdna Foundation
JULY 2, 2020
Casey Pechan of Fluxx Labs recently told the story of how Surdna shifted its grantmaking strategy to rapidly respond to the COVID-19 crisis and the needs of our grantees. Below is an excerpt of Casey’s blog post, which you can read in full — and watch the companion webinar — on Fluxx’s website. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on grantmaking.
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OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
JERUSALEM, JUNE 11, 2010 – OurCrowd, the world’s largest global venture investment platform will host the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference on June 22 to explore the latest technological solutions to the coronavirus crisis, including vaccination, treatment, diagnostics and prevention of the disease. Read more here. The post [PRESS RELEASE] OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference to host global leaders, startups and investors online appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
The economic disruption caused by COVID-19 is the worst recession the world has seen in nearly a century. At the OurCrowd Pandemic Innovation Conference , Alec Ellison, Chairman of OurCrowd US, sat down with three world-class investors to discuss their perspective on the coronavirus recession, caused by the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. The three investors included founder and Chief Investment Officer of Key Square Group Scott Bessent; managing director at Insight Partners, Deven Parekh; and
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
“Employers assume that they will be taken advantage of if employees are given control over their finances through on-demand pay,” said Jeanniey Walden, chief innovation and marketing officer at wage access solution DailyPay. Read more here. The post [DailyPay in Footwear News] Why Paying Retail Employees On-Demand Is More Important Than Ever appeared first on OurCrowd.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
According to Kremer-Tal, MigVax is hoping for its oral vaccine to be market-ready within 12-18 months. The company is slated to start human trials for its vaccine by the end of the summer or the beginning of the fall, she added. Read more here. The post [MigVax in The Media Line] Patient Care Compromised During Pandemic, Doctor Warns appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.
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OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
In recent weeks, many major cities have seen double-digit lifts in movement outside the home compared to early April, according to data from location tracking company Ubimo. Read more here. The post [Ubimo in Marketing Dive] Why digital OOH advertising is especially effective right now appeared first on OurCrowd.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
After a hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the IPO market has come roaring back. Just look at yesterday’s offering for Lemonade (NYSE:LMND). The shares spiked by 139% to $69.41—putting the market cap at over $3 billion. Read more here. The post [Lemonade in Forbes] Lemonade IPO Shows The Power Of AI (Artificial Intelligence) appeared first on OurCrowd.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
Israeli researchers have conducted clinical trials seeking to demonstrate that pain can be effectively relieved using targeted micro-doses of THC. Read more here. The post [Syqe in Yahoo Finance] Very Low Doses Of THC Can Help Treat Pain appeared first on OurCrowd.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
Their wide ranging conversation explores the evolution of behavioral biometrics, how AI helps fight fraud, protecting identity in the gig economy, and the future of biometrics. The interview constitutes an excellent followup to the recent webinar “Building Invincible Trust Chains with Strong Authentication and ID Verification,” in which BioCatch participated.
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OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
Signals Analytics, the next generation advanced analytics platform that leverages external data to uncover trends and predictive insights, announces a new rollout of its award-winning platform, leveraging breakthroughs in NLP, machine learning and other capabilities that enhance the precision, detail and utilization of advanced analytics in the enterprise.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
Because of its high concentration of cutting-edge technology companies, Israel has been dubbed the Silicon Valley of the Middle East — or Silicon Wadi (“wadi” means “valley” in Hebrew). Read more here. The post [C2A Security in Forbes] An Oasis Of Mobility Innovation: The Origins Of Israel’s Silicon Wadi appeared first on OurCrowd.
OurCrowd
JULY 2, 2020
When the coronavirus surfaced in China in December 2019, it set off a domino effect worldwide – with the number of active cases snowballing rapidly. . By February 2020, the daily increase in people falling ill with Covid-19 was in the thousands and -though international borders closed down and households went into lockdown – active cases skyrocketed in June to approxi mately 130,000 new cases a day, according to Worldometer. .
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