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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech inĀ 2018

BeyondVC

NYC has deep enterprise tech : the NYC you imagine that is full of ad tech and media is not the NYC that we see. Corporate America is pressured to decrease costs and improve customer interactions and every Fortune 500 is a technology company. Quantum dabbling: We will hear about more and more enterprises explore the use of quantum.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers.

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How Will Demand Media Make This Work?

Andrew Payne

In that spirit, SEC filings are a great source of entrepreneurial case studies, and recently I’ve been reading about Demand Media. Demand Media has a mix of businesses, including a domain name registrar. Their risk for Google search algorithm changes has been well-reported.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

The human toll a virus could inflict and the immense economic cost of the emergency response stayed with him. As a child living in Hong Kong through SARS, he saw first hand the human toll a virus could inflict, and the immense economic cost of the emergency response. Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media.

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More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo

David Teten

It allows small businesses to raise $1 million, from a limit of 10% of income or $10,000 from individual investors, without registering their companies with the SEC. The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to redress this. It was created before the Internet age to protect investors by promoting full disclosure of information.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

It’s clear that many companies are going to need to understand “authority&# in the social media era. If these software companies each build this authority algorithm in-house then they may become a product. Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB. Raising $75mm in IPO, values company at $515mm.

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