News about Our Portfolio Companies
· Mycroft podcast
· Astronomer: six principles for sending surveys
· How Nestio plans to persuade landlords to ditch StreetEasy
· 5 questions with Rheo CEO Alan Cannistraro
· Iris.tv fuels global standardization for video personalization with publishers
· CodeFights launches Database World and 11 new languages in one of its biggest updates
· HBO knows what you are thinking during Game of Thrones thanks to Canvs
· Stream raises 2.8M with Social Starts participating
Industry Trends
· The digital wealth of nations + a timeline of future technology
· YC raising 1B for new fund
· Women are hacking VC and Portfolia
· 14% of some Google teams didn’t attend college
· More than 75% VC funding has gone to 5 on-demand startups
· More women and minorities are taking college-level computer courses in high school
· Lyft outlines self-driving car plans
· Startups are cheaper to build but more expensive to grow
· Tech’s biggest five now worth 3T + the decline in investment in SF startups
Artificial Intelligences
· Apple launches ML blog
· AI real world issues
· China wants to build a $150B AI industry
· Predictions on successful startups from AI
Commerce
· The unbundling of food
· Facebook is going to let publishers start charging readers to view stories
· The top 25 DNVBs of 2017
· Sears announces partnership with Amazon + the widening of Amazon’s moat
Security
· When companies get hacked, should they be allowed to hack back?
· Shutting down ransomware
IoT
· The social media universe
· Alexa passes 15K skills mark
· How to think like Amazon in IoT
Work Platforms
· Millennials: the job hopping generation (21% of 18-35 yr olds have changed jobs in the last year)
Experiences
· New York City mayor wants to be the AR/VR global hub
· NBC launches ‘Stay Tuned’ on Snapchat
· Amazon’s spark: a shopping discovery platform
Blockchain
· Ethereum co-founder says crypto coin market is a time-bomb
· Hacker steals $31M of ether
· Reflections on the best blockchain tweets
· Fintech is in the eye of the beholder
· Gnosis
· The tiniest blockchain + the top 6 open source projects in 2017
· The logistics industry and blockchainization
· Bitcoin averts 2 currency split + between a rock and a hard fork + crypto’s biggest test yet + Segwit2x
· Crypto boom and hedge funds
· Why tokens are eating the world
Health
· Medcity’s best of INVEST Pitch Perfect contest 2017
· Tackling inefficiency: how AI will solve healthcare’s biggest and least sexy problem
· KKR buys WebMD for 2.8B
Business and Personal Strategy
· Why business leaders should read more science fiction
· The quickest way to estimate how much to raise + the system for labeling fundraising rounds is broken and useless
· Hack growth before retention