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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value.

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