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
- Buy your ticket to HustleCon on June 23rd!
- Simple Reach raises $13.3M in new funding
- Get Stream releases free new Sketch mobile UI kit for building social activity streams
- Bark’s CPO Titania Jordan explains how they keep kids safe on the internet
- Viant Technologies integrates our portfolio company Adelphic “to enhance self-service, people-based offerings”
- Littlstar teams up with Nvidia Designworks
- Newswhip’s Whipsmart conference for social publishing pioneers
- Epix Cast partnering with our portfolio company Vizbee to make it easy to stream movies on connected TVs
Industry Trends
- 1 in 10 data breaches in 2016 had gone undetected for over a year
- Citi lists Netflix, Tesla, and Disney as potential Apple takeover targets
- Facebook to launch live premium TV
- 14 thoughts on navigating the blockchain landscape in 2017
- Apple awards Corning first Advanced Manufacturing Fund Investment
- Spotify direct listing on NYSE within a year
- Unicorn outcomes: Sequoia Capital
- The top 263 companies racing towards AV + DeepMap
- Singapore…a miniature Silicon Valley?
- Using SMS vulnerabilities to intercept two-factor authentification messages by banks
- Nearly 3T in market cap, here’s how Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Facebook, and Amazon make their money
Artificial Intelligences
- Convolutional neural networks at Facebook
- AIs’ effect on the apprenticeship model
- Dell using ML to help female entrepreneurs
- AI closing in on the work of junior lawyers
- Erica, Bank of America’s new digital assistant
- Using deep learning at scale in Twitter timelines
- Updating Google Maps with deep learning and street view
- Slack using ML to identify who on the team is the best person to ask about something
Commerce
- Amazon blocking competitor’s bots
- Color increases brand recognition by up to 80%
IoT
- Persirai IoT malware
- Microsoft unveils new cloud services for AI and IoT sensors
Content and Experiences
- Apple TV and Amazon Prime offered on each platform
- Twitter announces new deal with NFL
- Amazon and Nucleus + rekindling the landline
- Cord cutting acceleration
- Snap views Discover as Facebook differentiator
Blockchain Beyond Currency
Business and Personal Strategy
- Truth about Multitasking
- How to use automation to scale customer success
- Brad Feld’s Top 5 books for entrepreneurs
- What matters and doesn’t when seeking press for your startup
- Six types of successful acquisitions
- The Social Progress Index
- Transitioning a business from marketing to growth
- How to avoid burnout
- How to build product with Aaron Levie
- Tiering marketplace users
- Who are the founders of university spinouts?