Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

In 2019, we’ll be doubling down on this effort as we are hiring a GM for our CXO Advisory Board & Network ( job description here ). While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. He approached me after I spoke about the potential of bitcoin and blockchain (at Summit Series’ Summit at Sea).

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. He approached me after I spoke about the potential of bitcoin and blockchain (at Summit Series’ Summit at Sea).

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. Even in the United States, one in five households are underbanked.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

He was intrigued by what this distributed infrastructure could mean for his work in Burma. When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. He approached me after I spoke about the potential of bitcoin and blockchain (at Summit Series’ Summit at Sea).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Hopefully we will see you there! FutureStack. Approach the future from different angles at the FutureStack Conference. GigaOM Structure.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

Entrepreneurship in the United States has been changing in ways that many people have not yet recognized. It’s precisely through networks of entrepreneurially minded people that social value is created, innovations start and fast-growing companies that produce jobs are born. . Drilling down on small business demographics.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. It’s a great business.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Texas dominates every top ten list.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. The number of cars in circulation in the world is just over 1 billion , with 25% of those in the United States.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. American VCs have a significantly wider network and have a capability to access management talent, data, partners, and customers to help a company scale. That’s the good news.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Normally everyone has seen “The Social Network”. His description of the films “The Social Network” (as a modern image) and “Ghostbusters” (as an “old school” image) illustrated entrepreneurs building from the ground up. In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. His answer?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. An aspiring entrant would need to build a network of railways to compete independently. Dig a deep moat. They own the tracks.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital. Sixty percent of the small businesses that fail in the United States every year were actually profitable when they failed. The one thing that my advice comes from the thirtieth President of the United States, Calvin Coolidge.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. VIPKid links students in China who want to learn English with native English speaking tutors in the United States and Canada.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

For us small business owners, for entrepreneurs who do and even if you do have great venture capital, great angel investors, great funding for marketing, for you to spend the amount of money it would take for you to reach an audience as ubiquitously as Nike can is just an outrageous amount of dollars.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2013

Settlers in the Western United States in the 1800''s participated in land grabs. The actual supply of Bitcoin is somewhat capped, but that may mean that you''d rather be a currency investor than a service business around Bitcoin--because access is going to be open, distributed, and trend towards as free as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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