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U.S. Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days

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It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending. Venture capitalists were particularly aggressive on early-stage investments in the second quarter. Ed tech, e-commerce and enterprise.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta. Most people I think at least in the technology community know you as the inventor of Soylent and the company by the same name. A lot of the technology that I think really enables what some would call our modern world is related to food than health.

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The Future of Web Startups

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Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology. Standardization When technology makes something dramatically cheaper, standardization always follows. Google is the leader here, as in so many areas of technology.

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