News About Our Portfolio Companies
- Newswhip interview with NASA social media team
- MakeSnaps founder Vivian Rosenthal on Text vs. Speech
- IRIS TV key player in publisher fight against Facebook and Google
- Nestio featured in NYC Disrupt spotlight
- Thinglink, a useful techno tool for teachers + Thinglink investing in machine learning
- Affinio listed in list of top 11 AI/ML startups
Industry Trends
- The future of the venture capital business
- Facebook’s Building 8, building hardware to communicate by touch and thought + Facebook and the cost of monopoly
- Google building ad blocker for chrome + time to break up Google?
- WeWork wants to build out your office and run it for you
- Pinterest building its second act as a visual search engine + Instant Ideas
- Why it is hard to pitch a clean energy startup it is hard + future of energy is nuclear fission, not fossil fuels or renewables
- McDonald’s mobile ordering bet
- The metrics behind one’s investment in Lyft
- By 2020, millennials will make up half of the workforce
- 85% of transactions are still cash
Artificial Intelligences
- Facebook machine intelligence
- Automation and anxiety
- Using AI and algorithms to return to feudal economic models
Commerce
- Facebook adds bots to Messenger for connections to publishers and businesses
- The biggest e-commerce acquisitions of all time
- PetSmart acquiring Chewy.com in largest e-commerce transaction ever
- When machines justify knowledge
- Death of retail is greatly exaggerated
IoT Software Stack
- Amazon’s Alexa developer policy bans ads except music and news + Amazon Lex opened to developers
- Google Home can now tell differences between voices
- 4 lessons from building an IoT product in 4 months
Work Platforms
- Yik Yak team sold to Square for < $3M
- LinkedIn taking on Salesforce’s 20% CRM market share
Content and Experiences
- $3.9B AR market now trending to $117B by 2022
- GoPro’s new 360 VR camera
- VR companies navigate the trough of disillusionment
- Wikipedia founder launches fact-checking site to curb fake news
- Facebook and VR
Blockchain Beyond Currency
- Who controls the blockchain?
- Avoiding the pointless blockchain project
- Blockchain is helping to build a new type of energy grid
Health
- Google wants to know how people get sick
- 34 leaders changing healthcare
- Prepare for the digital health revolution
Business and Personal Strategy
- 25 considerations for filing an IPO
- 10 things that make angels cringe + stop obsessing over valuation
- How to remove mediocrity from your life
- Does conflict breed creativity?
- Why you should meditate + 3 mindsets of successful people
- A face to face request is 34 times more effective than email
- Employee engagement
- How to create an employee handbook
- How to meet a technical co-founder
- 10 minute routine for clarity and creativity