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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Team Protocol One – Ensuring JTAC to Pilot Communication. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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18 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Pivot They’re Making in Their Business in 2020

Hearpreneur

So that’s why we are excited about 2020 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. That means in 2020 we are switching about 70% of our marketing over from email marketing campaigns to SMS marketing campaigns. If I could sum up our 2020 strategy in two words they would be trust and security.

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Our Investment In Emotive

Mucker Lab

Mucker’s first meeting with Emotive happened in November of 2018, though our initial investment wouldn’t happen until 18 months later in May 2020 when we would lead their Series A. The company experienced 466% revenue growth in 2020, surpassing all revenue and traction goals outlined pre-COVID. .

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The Anti zoom

VC Cafe

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Their latest round of 138 millions dollars, led by Viola Growth ?-Next47

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2023 Predictions

Eric Friedman

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. If communities are a moat, now they are even more important to protect. Bill Gates. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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2023 Predictions

Eric Friedman

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. If communities are a moat, now they are even more important to protect. Bill Gates. 2022 Predictions Legend = -1 = -.75

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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community.

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