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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

And, with that warning, I offer to you, the big stories in the startup and investing ecosystem of 2018, written in ascending order of importance and magnitude…. Now in 2018, there’s been significant rounds they’ve led or participated in — Pitchbook here recaps some of the biggest. Then 2018 arrived.

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Has Blockchain Fever Died Down In 2018?

YoungUpstarts

” According to the authors, just like TCP/IP was adopted massively so as to optimize processes in all industries, so will blockchain technology. The process of adoption will be gradual and steady, not sudden, as waves of technological and institutional change gain momentum.”

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Battling Big Business Bullies On The IP Playground: Minimizing The Risk Of Intellectual Property Litigation

YoungUpstarts

Intellectual property (IP), which is often the heart of a startup’s business strategy, constitutes a small subset of those legal rights. Not surprisingly, the best way to avoid IP litigation is to prepare for IP litigation, and the only way to prepare is to know the rules. from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2018.

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4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Learn 4 Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018. The challenges facing innovation leaders, facing 2018 is — how do you integrate new digital capability? Thinking about 2018, here are… Four Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018: Get internal alignment. This is not innovation as we once knew it.

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Why We Invested in Toya

VC Cafe

Between the first quarters of 2018 and 2021, Roblox’s DAUs (daily active users) more than quadrupled from 10.3 Thinking ahead 5-10 yearsm we believe that Toya will be one of the leading IP owners of the virtual world. million to 42.1 The total hours of user engagement sky rocketed from 2.1 billion to 9.7

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Google Enters Hologramland

Feld Thoughts

Following is a brief excerpt from one of the articles floating around about that announcement: “Pichai said “We have developed a breakthrough light field display,” probably with the help of the people and IP it scooped up from Lytro, the light field camera company that didn’t manage to get its own tech off the ground and dissolved in 2018.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of DesignRush. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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