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What Happened In 2017

YoungUpstarts

Today, we focus on what happened in 2017. Crypto: I went back and looked at my predictions for 2017 and I completely whiffed on the breakout year for crypto. I did not even mention it in my post on New Year’s Day 2017. 2017 is the year when crypto/blockchain entered the frenzy phase. the decentralized Internet).

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

Martand Jha, “ This Is How the Space Race Changed the Great Power Rivalry Forever ” The National Interest, July 27, 2017. Cold War in Space: Top Secret Reconnaissance Satellites Revealed ” National Museum of the United States Air Force, June 02, 2015. Space as a Warfighting Domain: Issues for Congress ” Congressional Research Service.

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Thoughts on SaaS in 2017

BeyondVC

at the time and best highlighted in our end of 2015 review: SaaS 2.0, Be prepared for a shifting landscape on the feature parity front again in 2017 as we see an intelligent layer weaved across existing platforms, SaaS 3.0 : SaaS 3.0, The post Thoughts on SaaS in 2017 appeared first on BeyondVC.

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We’re Hiring for Our Investment Team at NextView’s NYC Office

View from Seed

Since we first opened our New York office back in 2015, we have steadily increased our presence over the years ( Melody joined us in 2017 and Dorothy in 2018), and now roughly 40% of our investments are in New York.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

— In June 2017, the board “retired” Jeff Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So far in 2017, GE is the worst performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial average. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

DataRails was founded in 2015 by Didi Gurfinkel, Eyal Cohen, and Oded Har-Tal. “When we spoke to DataRails customers, including several leading Fortune 500 companies, they were thrilled to be able to continue using a tool they are so accustomed to, with the added capabilities that DataRails has to offer them,” he said in 2017.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Last week, 400+ data-driven marketers from 20+ countries around the world met up in the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas for CXL Live 2017. Nicole Mintiens (@Nicole_Mintiens) April 5, 2017. Sara McGuire (@sara_mcguire) April 5, 2017. Michael Aagaard (@ContentVerve) April 5, 2017. Joe Martin (@hijoemartin) April 7, 2017.