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2018: Year in review and a look ahead

Version One Ventures

Now as projects are developing, it is clear that blockchain technology is still in the early stages. We’re focused on vertically integrated startups that empower consumers and companies to collect health data easily and affordably, to become a “biobank” where this data can power personalized recommendations. Bio/healthcare.

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[Review] Ctrl Alt Delete

YoungUpstarts

” , Mitch’s volume focuses on how shifts in mobile and social technologies, data, content, marketing and jobs makes it necessary for us to transform the way we run our businesses and do our work. Here, the idea isn’t just about starting a blog, Facebook page or Twitter account nor spamming everybody in our network.

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The challenge facing Bitcoin start-ups

Version One Ventures

There is not doubt that Bitcoin / the blockchain is a revolutionary technology. Once implemented, the blockchain might be able to disrupt many verticals that are built around managing the transfer of ownership by replacing a centralized approach with a decentralized (and hence usually more efficient) approach. Related articles.

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All Markets Are Not Created Equal: 10 Factors To Consider When Evaluating Digital Marketplaces

abovethecrowd.com

Opportunity for Technology to Add Value. In many marketplaces, the technology offering greatly enhances the user experience. They have overlaid this data with maps and search technology that provide remarkable richness to the home buyer. Network Effects. Expand the Market. Payment Flow.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

Java 107
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A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

abovethecrowd.com

eBay recently launched an aggressive campaign attacking Amazon’s rate table on a vertical-by-vertical basis ( those percentages can be found here ). These reasons are likely behind the struggles in GroupOn’s core Daily Deals business ( North America Third Party Revenue is down in Q4 both YOY and QOQ ).

Europe 101
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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.