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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

The top 20 tech billionaires globally have lost $480 billion on paper in the past year. This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. Europe faced a similar fate and funding for the third quarter in Europe totalled $16 billion, down 44% year over year from $28 billion.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

We just held our seventeenth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

To be clear Airbnb posted a GAAP profit in Q3 2020 of over $200M which is impressive given travel remains materially depressed due to COVID. For reference, high-flying megacap tech stocks like Apple and Google have operating income margins >20% and Facebook and Microsoft have operating income margins >30%.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

In this posts I review the potential risks for the Israeli tech ecosystem and the mitigating factors that counter some of them. According to the 2021 Tech Review report by IVC , Israeli tech startups attracted a record of $25.6 Israeli tech investments 2015-2021 (source: IVC ). Europe: $100 billion ??India:

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Spotting Opportunities; The Startup Journey of Catherine Mandungu

The Startup Magazine

She realised the revenue operations market was booming, especially within the tech industry, and therefore wanted to explore what is largely an untapped market within the UK and Europe. The tech industry is valued at $1tn in the UK alone, and with an increase in startups and scaleups, this number will only increase.

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Will the Apple Vision Pro launch a new era in spatial computing?

VC Cafe

New products are launched everyday in tech. There are a lot of excellent reviews popping up on the Apple Vision Pro ( some more critical than others ). The product went on sale in the US on February 2nd 2024, and retails for $3,500. This is not meant to be another one of those. You can watch the official product demo here.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

The old paradigm of manufacturing in China and selling in Europe and US is no longer entirely true. The key here is to transfer foreign management expertise and technologies to China while tapping on its huge domestic entertainment market. A “China + 1″ Strategy. Logistics – Challenges and Opportunities.