What are our partners reading this week? News about our portfolio companies, macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
News About Our Portfolio Companies
· RentHop analyzes if convenient coffee predicts neighborhood rents in Manhattan
· Newswhip announces innovative new plan to develop a Science of Content
· Huffington Post features Viyet’s collection of crystals
· Top blockchain (and our portfolio) company Alphapoint shows support for Exchange Union
· Outbrain acquires our portfolio company Zemanta
Industry Trends
· IPO market in 2017; underwhelming thus far
· The next major platform
· The top 10 cities for women-owned businesses
· What energy sources power the world
· The richest people in history + map of US unicorns
· Everything is a marketing campaign now, even policy ideas
· How millennials are changing the housing market
· The story behind Stripe
· The big and hairy problems in shipping and logistics
· Apple supplied Foxconn opening US factory
Artificial Intelligences
· China wants to be the global leader in AI in 30 years
· The AI race to the top + here
· Facebook shuts down AI system after bots create own language + here
Commerce
· VCs betting on fashion startups with ecommerce investment $s down
· Amazon launches the Hub for apartment buildings
· How retail can thrive in a world without stores
· From the 1950s-1980s, at least 1 shopping mall was built; now 25% of the existing 1000 malls are expected to close in 5 years
· Ranking the world’s most valuable brands
· One DNVB in the doghouse with customers
Security
· A cybersecurity expert on why you should be very worried about the internet’s future
· Corporate dealmaking dims in cybsecurity although VC investment is up
· TSA’s behavioral detection processes aren’t working
IoT
· APIs: the unsung hero of the connected world
· IoT issues around cybersecurity
Work Platforms
· Working from home rates and avg hours working from home fell in 2016
· Top 1000 SaaS companies
Experiences
· AR SDK for face filters
· Amazon patents point to AR tech for home try-on
· Google image search gets more like Pinterest
· Will AR/VR replace tourism?
Blockchain
· Segwit, explained
· Tierion raises 25M ICO in less than 1 day
· Filecoin launching next week
· How to secure your token sale
· How VCs position themselves in the world of blockchain
· Token economy issue #7
· SEC concludes DAO tokens are securities + good news? + report + Tim Draper’s response + Fred Wilson’s take
Health
· Amazon’s secret health tech team 1492
· Scientists successfully used CRISPR to fix a mutation that causes disease
· Most active genomics investors
· When our brains peak
· First human embryos edited in US
· How Americans get healthcare coverage
Business and Personal Strategy
· Why corporate innovation is harder now
· For startups, VC funding is always in season
· Q&A with LPs in VC
· How developed is the global VC market?
· What you need to know before raising a micro VC fund today
· How to tell the Truth