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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Many of these teams are focused on sectors such as financial services and healthcare, which already have large data sets to build upon, and which can benefit from the aggregation and analysis of that data to create new services or business models in these sectors.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Many of these teams are focused on sectors such as financial services and healthcare, which already have large data sets to build upon, and which can benefit from the aggregation and analysis of that data to create new services or business models in these sectors.