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Foodtech Trends That Are Here to Stay

View from Seed

Advances in technology and changing consumer preferences have long been transforming the way food is created, distributed, and consumed. The food supply chain has been rattled with distribution shifting from restaurants to grocery and with food production bottlenecks resulting from fewer employees at work.

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Why Pitching Your Product Is Not Enough For Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

As a technology buff, I’m all too sensitive to the common investor complaint that technical people often end up selling yet another “solution looking for a problem,” because they are so impressed with their technology. Your solution may include leading technology, but if available to competitors, the lead won’t last.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

They’ve had a total of 12 deals that have IPO’d. eCommerce is hot again! Investors: Allen Morgan of Mayfield Fund, ff Asset Management, Bobby Yazdani, Nova Spivack of Lucid Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Paige Craig, Tom McInerney, Michael Yavonditte of Quigo Technologies, Ofer Ronan. the funding and market coverage.

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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). We have simply taken a structured look at how traditional human car transportation can change as a result of today’s technology. New Use Cases.

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

View from Seed

We are not an AR/VR, blockchain, AI, or ecommerce fund. Although we have companies that are leveraging all of these technologies, we’ve realized that the best companies tend not to be easily categorized and don’t necessarily fit the standard playbooks. Pierre was also named to MIT Technology Review ‘s Innovators Under 35 list.

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4 Super-Hot Fin Tech Trends To Watch Out For In 2016

YoungUpstarts

Gartner expects mobile commerce to make up 50% of all ecommerce payments in the US by the year 2017 and Statista predicts that the volume of mobile payments worldwide will exceed $720 billion by the year 2017. It is estimated that $12 billion was distributed through loans by marketplace lenders in the US.

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A dumb American’s perspective on investing in Southeast Asia

Hippoland

But it’s arguably even harder in a place where there aren’t ready distribution channels. In the 90s, in the US, going IPO was a common liquidity path. But after consumers became wary of IPOs, M&A became the much more dominant path, though IPOs are coming back in favor again in some cases. Is that strategic to them?

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