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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. Vertical integration of different funding risks. Just six months ago, VCs were publishing white papers extolling the virtue of non-bank lending startups, but now no one will touch them with a 10-foot pole.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. From security inks to sunlight harvesting with windows, your product range is wide. UbiQD’s sunlight harvesting windows use quantum dots to turn solar energy into electricity. Great question.

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What Happens to Farming When Water Is 10x More Expensive & Labor Is Scarce?

Hunter Walker

Climate change, consumer demands from a rising standard of living, and shifting political attitudes towards immigration, have put both water and labor very much at risk, especially when you look at the arc of the next 10+ years. Even when you can grow, can you harvest?

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ).

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. — in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? It’s a problem that all weather driven sports have.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

They are harvesting data on Americans to build profiles of our beliefs, behavior, and biological makeup for tailored attempts to manipulate or coerce individuals. The path forward for the DoD should be supporting open research, but optimizing on data set collection, harvesting research results, and fast application. .