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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. But beyond that, not much.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Tech best sub sectors include cloud computing, machine learning/A.I. The Forecasted 2016 to 2026 job growth stands at 120%. Directing this booming sector of the economy, which is at the heart of almost everything we do and experience these days, to doing good while reaping profits is a win-win situation more investors are eyeing.