VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 23, 2018

In 2016, the event industry generated $325 billion in direct spending — through hotels, catering, exhibitions, and events centers — and an even more impressive $845 billion in business sales. Entrepreneurs find people they genuinely enjoy, and we hear often about people partnering or combining companies. But what about entrepreneurs?

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BeyondVC

MARCH 21, 2017

See Jeff Leventhal’s post ( boldstart venture partner and Workrails cofounder/CEO) on why services continue to matter for cloud vendors. curated by Replicated (full disclosure: boldstart is an investor). Same goes for why on-prem. in banking, insurance, and health care. If interested, take a look at EnterpriseReady.io

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Up and Running

JANUARY 5, 2018

acquisition of Jet.com in August 2016 transformed the company beyond the addition of the Jet platform. Jet.com founder Marc Lore ascended to CEO of Walmart’s US e-commerce operations, and since joining has taken the company on an e-commerce/apparel acquisition spree. Walmart’s $3.3B POTENTIAL ACQUISITION TARGETS.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Alongside the likes of Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, EC1 Capital and Passion Capital, TNW spent the evening at Wayra London to bring you our favorites. by 2016 “or will have been acquired for our discovery technology”. ? Matt Dobson, co-Founder and CEO of EI Technologies described it as ”your Nike Fuelband for your mind”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 14, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Welcome instead Lean Startup Week , October 31 - November 6, 2016. We’re inviting the big names in entrepreneurship to help curate workshops and activities. He also happens to be the founder of the super hot pre-work dance party, Daybreaker.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

The reason podcasts captured my imagination today, is a podcast I listened to (very meta) by Recode’s Peter Kafka, and Nick Quah, journalist and curator of HotPod. According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, podcast industry ad revenue will reach $220 million in 2017, up 85 percent from 2016’s $119 million ( source ).

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