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10 Examples of Remote Sensing Applications

The Startup Magazine

All of this is possible thanks to remote sensing technologies like satellite imagery analysis, drones, and IoT devices that allow for remote monitoring and advanced on-the-fly analysis of any changes on the ground. Planning and monitoring of field activities (plowing, seeding, harvesting, irrigation). Agriculture. Gas & Oil.

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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

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. There are of course some caveats.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   At the financial level , and assuming a harvest of the investment in the company without the need for further financing, two terms stand out as driving economics: the dividend and the liquidation preference.   First , dividends.

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

VC Cafe

credit rating forecast dropped in November, and since then the S&P 500 index has jumped by 15%. Imagindairy creates animal-free milk proteins from microorganisms via proprietary precision-fermentation technology. Investors do not give the credit rating the same attention as before.

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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)

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The future of food production – reasons to be hopeful

The Equity Kicker

We have big challenges ahead sustaining the world’s growing population (on an exponential curve and forecast to grow from today’s 7bn to nearly 10bn by 2050) but technologies under development give us a strong chance of solving them. As you can tell, I’m very optimistic about the future.

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