VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2023

First YoY drop since dotcom, but up 1% from 2020 ( source ) When it comes to M&A however, 2022 was a record breaking year with $127 billion invested across 1,250 deals, according to the latest 2022 state of gaming report by Drake Star. What events sparked the major revolutions in business models and distribution? /1

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2020

At Foundry Group, we’ve decided to voluntarily extend our Work from Home policy until at least the end of May 2020. We are fortunate that we can run our business in a completely remote and distributed fashion, with everyone working from home. Until then, our office is closed. And, to do that well, will require real preparation.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

The upcoming decade 2020-2030 is going to be the decade of the Technology Industry, some experts coined the TECHADE. Governments around the world are adopting Digital Infrastructure for growth. In a post-pandemic world, the healthtech industry is going to be central to governments, business, and society. 2-Technology.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Lofty AI team includes (from left to right) Jerry Chu , Alysia Silberg , Mark Keane , and Max Ball The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 Lofty AI serves both full-time and part-time real estate investors by helping them make more data-driven decisions yielding higher returns. What is your top goal for Lofty AI for 2020?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Tell us a little bit about how the company was founded and what you thought you were going to spend 2020 working on. Fred Turner : Yeah.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you had to choose two words to describe board work in 2020, which would you choose? 2020 has brought a host of traumatic events including out-of-control fires, hurricanes, tornados, and of course, COVID-19, making it difficult for boards to function at all, let alone meet in person. Distribute conflict of interest questionnaires.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

This is critical since the government is moving toward a speedier payment system, which will reduce the time it takes for victims to get compensation. Video marketing will also allow small businesses to distribute the same video content across many platforms, allowing them to serve a wide spectrum of clients at the same time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." And our customer base grew probably.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society. Lenore Estrada is one of those people.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

For example, if you invested $1,000 in bitcoin back on January 1, 2016, on January 1, 2020, your investment would be worth $100,338. Cryptocurrency needs regulation, either by an independent organization or the government to ensure full disclosure and fair distribution of information. The project failed in 2018.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 4, 2020

During this critical period, Zenput is offering multi-unit operators free use of the Zenput platform to implement their COVID-19 action plans through June 30, 2020. . Nexus Mutual opened up their community forum to provide a better platform to critically analyse and discuss proposals, governance, claims assessment and DeFi risk. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Manufacturing is a global industry with complex and widely distributed value chains and a large amount of data available. Every day, we create 2.5 Global manufacturing.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, I sent Eric a copy of the draft and asked him if he’d write the Foreword. In 2020, startup communities, which once appeared on the landscape of business (as well as the literal landscape) like so many rare animals, are long past the point of being uncommon or even unusual.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2014

By 2020, the average Indian will be 29, versus 37 in China. Apple has a very limited market presence in India, due to high price and limited distribution. The next largest carriers are Vodafone, Idea, Reliance, Tata Teleservices, Aircel, MTNL and BSNL (both majority government owned), Uninor, MTS, Videocon and Loop Mobile.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Current worldwide statistics as of 10 May 2020, (from gisanddata.maps) show that there are over 10 million people infected with this virus and just over 503, 500 deaths. One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. ” This virus is unmatched.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2020

You want to develop workable estimates of total potential market, potential market value, reachable market, most important market segments, and the target market segments and distribution channels you go after specifically. This article lists standard sources of information, such as US government resources. . Crisis market analysis.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

Governments and businesses across the world are consistently speaking about the need to adjust to a new normal. According to a report by the influencer marketing hub, 69% of brands expect that they will decrease the ad spend in 2020. Wherever you look, businesses are having to reassess their overall strategies. Liquidity is now king.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. What technology would you call the Myspace of 2019…in other words, something we won’t be thinking so much about in 2020 and beyond?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Everyone's 2020 plans have been blown to hell. Obviously, I think that in a time like this, this is when we should have a government response, but I don't think there's been enough of a government response focused on funding the things that can get us out of this. That really is what is needed now. ER : Of course.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Since its Series C in November 2020, Chainalysis has increased ARR by more than 100% year-over-year, doubled its client base and now supports more than 100 digital assets across 10 native blockchains (around 90% of cryptocurrency economic activity). I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? How did Kraken come about? ?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

billion merger with 21 st -Century Fox, many experts feel Netflix will need a stronger distribution and acquisition arm in order to compete. The company is aiming to capitalize on what it predicts will be a $4 trillion e-commerce industry in 2020, and its API and app make it a tech-savvy investment for other e-commerce strongholds.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they trillion in 2020. In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The government and providers need to acknowledge the five million (and growing) self-employed and keep up with the new world order, whose insurance needs aren’t being met. Brexit is a massive distraction, and it is our opinion that the government needs to focus on what’s actually important?—?making

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

Here we are, halfway through 2020 and what an unprecedented year it has been. The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce, connecting local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. Happy Canada Day & Happy (early) Fourth of July!

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

“But I became frustrated with how government would try and solve problems.” According to the most pessimistic forecast they could find, Davis and Baehr will still be fishing in a sea of more than 100 billion pieces of mail in 2020. ” A series of investigations led him to the realization that the U.S. .

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

The Texas Startup Manifesto The roadshow was a successful trip that we will definitely repeat in 2020. This is all part of the Texas Startup Manifesto which is about uniting the state of Texas into one startup ecosystem and helping entrepreneurs recruit talent, find customers, and attract investors from across the state.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Specific benefits of global internet marketplaces: Increase wealth distribution (all examples). This is a major “unlocking.”.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. Global airline revenues are expected to fall by $4-5 billion in the first quarter of 2020 as a result of flight cancellations, according to a report from the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). installed on their laptops.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

We sat down with Andrew Yang , current 2020 Presidential Candidate, who’s whole platform is based on reimagining the American economy with Universal Basic Income, to chat about the benefits of making this a national policy. Then the government says ‘hey, great news! That’s below the poverty line.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , see the Quantstamp pitch in the category of Blockchain Technology (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Fraley Oracle Predictions for 2020 & 2021. Fraley Oracle Predictions for 2020 & 2021. Even when we have it, the ramp up to production, logistics to distribute, and the issues related to reluctance will slow things down. Like all huge government programs there will be SNAFU’s.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. If you’re a clear “market winner” like Stripe, Robinhood or Airbnb.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

First up, Joel Korpi from Austin, Texas, pitched Rockify , a platform for transforming video content into multiple device friendly formats, process payments and help content producers distribute and monetize content more widely. Joel has one anchor customer right now and has validated his assumptions based on that case study.

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