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10 Examples of Remote Sensing Applications

The Startup Magazine

Earth remote sensing (ERS) data has become a critical source when solving practical problems of local and global level, monitoring natural and man-made objects and phenomena, increasing efficiency in many areas of human activity , especially agriculture, transport, fuel and energy complex, construction, environment management, etc.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Solar power–a case study in exponential growth

The Equity Kicker

BP recently released a report showing that global solar generating capacity grew 73.3% Humanity’s energy requirements could be satisfied by just 1/10,000 of the sunlight falling on the Earth’s surface harvested by solar panels on an area equal to a few percent of the world’s unused deserts. in 2011, and at 63.4

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

All of this is in addition to the macro challenges that Israeli startups had to deal with in 2023 even before October 7th, including international investor unease due to the proposed judicial reform (that has since been taken off the table), Ukraine war, global venture slowdown ( US VC investments were down 60% in 2023 ), etc.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. It became brand building and culture building moment for the company. (21:41)