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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

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. And will society demand to have more of the algorithmic black box that feeds it information exposed in public?

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech inĀ 2018

BeyondVC

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50. NYC has deep enterprise tech : the NYC you imagine that is full of ad tech and media is not the NYC that we see. 2017 Recap.

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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 unique and patented algorithms are a breakthrough in the present state of the art. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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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

Once we saw this evidence, we thought, "Wait a sec, we can actually do something about it." Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. I still run the research group in Cambridge with 11 post-docs and grad students, where we work on machine learning, algorithms for drug design and molecular design. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. So from a pure computer science point of view, I had never really studied consensus algorithms in depth. And so the algorithm essentially proposes how using something called hashing power or proof of work. And it would be amazing.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. AppDynamics.

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