A compendium of what our partners read each week, highlighting macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
News About Our Portfolio Companies
· Shots Studio featured on ABC Nightline
· Cassia Network expands Bluetooth IoT ecosystem with GE partnership
· Stratifyd listed as top 10 startup in Charlotte
· YouEarnedIt launches “People” to improve real-time work connections
· Affinio’s analysis of Airbnb’s audience
· Magic Cube on why traditional e-security won’t be effective for mobile ATMs
· Newswhip’s top media influencers on Instagram
· Apptopia hires chief data officer amid explosive product growth
· Rheo wants to curate video based on your mood
Industry Trends
· Why Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods matters for Startup land + Amazon’s new customer + drone tower patent
· NASA finds evidence of 10 new Earth-sized planets in the corner of our galaxy + the 20 most populous cities in the world by 2100
· Advertising giants leave little room for adtech startups and VCs are noticing
· Jeff Bezos’ empire chart
· NEA makes history with 3.3B fund
· Meet the 2017 unicorn class (24)
· The most important invention from every state
· Growth is getting harder + end of a cycle?
· Tech giants earned more than 1M per US worker in 2016
· Stock pick is dying because there are no more stocks to pick
Artificial Intelligences
· Bringing AI to the enterprise
· A discussion about AIs conflicts and challenges
· Elon Musk’s Neuralink
· Google launches its AI-powered jobs search engine
· What the online advertising world can teach us about the evolution of machine learning in SaaS
Commerce
· Amazon leads in apparel e-commerce sales among millennials
· Amazon Prime wardrobe
· Walmart to vendors: get off AWS
· What works in e-commerce
IoT
· Why voice tech is about to see some major love
· What Apples Homepod is up against
Content and Experiences
· Varjo
· Time Warner signs $100M deal with Snap for shows and ads
· Snapchat acquires Zenly + launches Snap map
· Instagram hits 250 DAU and adds video replays
Blockchain
· Getting past the dominance of the nation state
· Triple entry accounting
· Ethereum flash crash
· Blockchain could help musicians make money again
Health
· Data blocking vs. blockchains in health + Google DeepMind’s project
· Seeking to thrive in a wellness world
· Telehealth investments skyrocketing
· Oscar expanding
· Health Insurance and Redistribution
· The pharmacy of the future
Business and Personal Strategy
· Five signs it is time to add bizops
· Should startups care about profitability?
· Tim Kendall; Pinterest’s money man
· What is the right burn rate for your startup?
· The job of a CFO at a scaling company
· The 10 commandments of startup success
· Has passive investing generated a bubble?
· Don’t get seduced by GMV
· The Kelly Criterion
· Teespring’s valuation goes to 11M from 650M in recap