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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – August 1st 2024

VC Cafe

Kudos Eran Shust and team Holisto (formerly Splitty) on your $10M series B for your price aggregation technology! Nice job Shmuel Bachinsky and team Quantum Transistors on securing $17.5M in grant funding from the EU to make quantum computing accessible to everyone! Way to go Ofir Har-Chen and team Clutch Security on raising an $8.5M

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Even if they’re not using this to target you with information sent via Twitter, they might use it in aggregate to determine things like the likely electoral votes in a region that will swing for a candidate.

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Thumbs Up On Gatekeepers, But Who… And How?

YoungUpstarts

Aggregators. We’ve seen the rise of aggregators like Goodreads , Booklikes , Shelfari , and Red Room , who play the role of gatekeepers by allowing anyone to rate books, post reviews, and then collect the panoply of opinions in one place. But their process is hit and miss. There are thousands more would-be authors than bloggers.

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