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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

NYC has deep enterprise tech : the NYC you imagine that is full of ad tech and media is not the NYC that we see. Dev Sec Ops is the hot topic in security: With the velocity of software development and the reuse of software components, building in security at developer level becomes a must have.

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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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The impact of social media on cryptocurrency prices and market trends

Transformify

The pricing and movements of cryptocurrencies are influenced by many different variables, but social media has grown to be a significant player in these marketplaces. We will look at how social media affects cryptocurrency pricing and market movements in this post.

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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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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. The factor takes into account funding, comments, shares and other campaign activity.

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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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