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Helium

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

One of the areas of blockchain innovation I am most excited about is building open, permissionless, and decentralized technology infrastructure. The three areas that seem most obvious to me for decentralized infrastructure are compute (code execution), storage (storing files, etc), and bandwidth (network infrastructure). And today, we are excited to announce that USV has made an investment in a decentralized network infrastructure project called Helium.

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Look Before You Leap - The Importance of Due Diligence In Angel Investing

The Seraf Compass

? There are as many different approaches to angel investing as there are investors. Some investors will tell you they invest based on their gut. After a 30 minute meeting with the entrepreneur, they are either in or out. They like to invest in people and that initial meeting guides their decision-making process.

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New Ways to Leverage Innovation: Activate CSR Strategies

UBI Global

How to support Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) We know that innovation is top of mind for businesses looking to stay competitive. Many corporations look for new ways to gain an edge, and often that means greater engagement with their employees, customers, and those communities they operate in. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one such way […].

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Innovation Policy and the Economy: Some New Research

EntreWorks Consulting

We’ve seen a recent flurry of interesting (to me at least) academic writing on innovation policy, much of which is linked to the NBER’s annual Innovation Policy and the Economy conference. Here’s a quick snapshot and some links to some articles that might be worth a scan. The Spatial Mismatch between Innovation and Joblessness (Glaeser/Hausman): Ed Glaeser is considered one of the leading “gurus” on regional economics and innovation.

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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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business.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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[JUMP Bikes in Financial Review] Uber jumps into bikes too in Australia

OurCrowd

Uber is preparing to bring its Jump electric bike and scooter sharing scheme to Australia and will reveal which cities will be first by the end of the year. Read more here. The post [JUMP Bikes in Financial Review] Uber jumps into bikes too in Australia appeared first on OurCrowd.

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How can we use data to fix the world?

OurCrowd

Kira Radinsky can actually fix the world. At the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, eBay’s Director of Data Science and Chief Scientist disclosed how her desire to understand causality between world events led her to develop the ultimate AI data system. Radinsky’s AI system seems straight out of the future: her algorithm-based technique can not only reposition drugs, it can also predict global calamities in an effort to prevent them.

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How To Impress Investors with A Flashback Pitch Deck [In 2019]

Dream It

In their best-selling book Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth , Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares write about the importance of traction: Traction is the best way to improve your chances of startup success. Traction is a sign that something is working. If you charge for your product, it means customers are buying. If your product is free, it’s a growing user base.

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[ThetaRay in CTech] Dutch Bank ABN AMRO Backs Cybersecurity Company ThetaRay

OurCrowd

Amsterdam-headquartered ABN AMRO Bank NV has invested in Israel-based cybersecurity company ThetaRay Ltd., the companies announced Wednesday. The investment was made as an expansion of ThetaRay’s latest round announced in July, in which it raised $30 million. Read more here. The post [ThetaRay in CTech] Dutch Bank ABN AMRO Backs Cybersecurity Company ThetaRay appeared first on OurCrowd.

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[OurCrowd in Calcalist] Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges the Israeli Tech Industry Faces

OurCrowd

On Tuesday June 18, in collaboration with Labs Israel, a co-working office space under the Teddy Sagi Group, CTech by Calcalist will host renowned investors and entrepreneurs at an event titled: It Tech Two To Tango. Read more on Calcalist here. The post [OurCrowd in Calcalist] Strategies, Opportunities, and Challenges the Israeli Tech Industry Faces appeared first on OurCrowd.

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PE Mastery: CAPTARGET's Playbook for Quality Lead Flow

CAPTARGET presents a masterclass in M&A deal sourcing. Learn to cast a wide net, embracing seller self-identification. Consistency is the linchpin: keep the origination process steady for a reliable flow of opportunities. Diversify your tactics, employing various tools and vendors. Tech matters! Understand DNS settings, domain authority, and brand presence for optimal outreach.

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[ThetaRay in The Times of Israel] Venture fund of ABN AMRO Bank takes stake in big data startup ThetaRay

OurCrowd

The corporate venture arm of ABN AMRO Bank has taken a strategic stake in Israeli artificial intelligence and big data startup ThetaRay, a developer of software that mimics human intuitive decision-making to detect hacking activities, avert money laundering schemes and uncover fraud and bad loans. Read more here. The post [ThetaRay in The Times of Israel] Venture fund of ABN AMRO Bank takes stake in big data startup ThetaRay appeared first on OurCrowd.