YoungUpstarts

JUNE 8, 2012

An author is welcome to demand an audit from a publisher, but good luck. From a publisher’s standpoint, a perfect world would be one where there are no authors at all – no one whose hand needs holding, no one whose royalties need to be paid, no one who calls demanding more action on the marketing of their books.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector. .”

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A Crowded Space

JULY 24, 2014

People may be hesitant to enter this market because of difficulties working with Medicare and Medicaid. Estimates are that there are nearly 1M workers that fall in the “grey market” - the term used here for home care aides paid out of pocket through private arrangements. . 2) Ability for on-demand / flexible workers.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 21, 2016

The ride experience is better in an UberX than a taxi, uberX is cheaper than a taxi, and on demand mobile booking, payments, etc make it way more convenient. It would cost way too much money and way too many years of R&D and new patents to be able to create a razor that shaves more effectively. Some companies have all three.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in particular) are leapfrogging innovation in the financial services sector. billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population). employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services. And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. And because of this, the demand for Silicon Valley caliber talent is growing exponentially. Toyota is a software company.

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thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in particular) are leapfrogging innovation in the financial services sector. billion unbanked adults (half of the world’s adult population). employ 60K people in 11 countries.

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