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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. 1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. My goodness, where to begin.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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Starcount.com: Charting The Stars In Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Prior to starting All The Worlds Entertainment , Thomson was executive chairman of global integrated advertising agency iris Worldwide , where he grew the business from £39 million to £75 million, and established iris in 15 key markets globally along the way. But that’s the way life alway’s been for the Scotsman.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

The two companies have collaborated for a long time, with Facebook using Face.com’s technology to help users tag the faces of friends in pictures they upload on the social network with Face.com’s Photo Tagger service. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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Meet Our New Special Advisor, Larry Summers

Ben's Blog

Intimately involved in resolving major macroeconomic crises in Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Third, Larry’s deep insight into global economics and geopolitics will be highly useful to our companies that intend to expand globally—which is to say, all of them. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999.

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Scale of Messaging Landscape 2017

VC Cafe

“Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc”?—? Now bigger than social media, messaging apps are on practically every phone, and only growing in engagement. messaging apps are the new social networks, they are valuable, important and sticky.