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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later.

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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. But how do people apply remote sensing opportunities to various processes across different verticals? Agriculture.

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

When a startup finds a repeatable sales process and steadily increasing revenue, its investors wants to harvest the rewards and build a culture of “execution.” However, if the founder is still running the company, the last thing he wants is a company complacent with day-to-day execution.

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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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Bean There, Done That: How Technology Is Helping Blue Bottle Coffee Serve Up A Great Cup

Hunter Walker

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). Q: How does technology impact your business? With this said, technology makes us better at what we do.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: AVA Byte

Austin Startup

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. AVA Technologies Inc. The patent-pending AVA Byte knows exactly what you’re growing and will adapt the light and water schedule to nurture the harvest. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., where AVA Technologies Inc.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: AVA Byte

Austin Startup

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. AVA Technologies Inc. The patent-pending AVA Byte knows exactly what you’re growing and will adapt the light and water schedule to nurture the harvest. Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., where AVA Technologies Inc.

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