Buzz Room
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
- Boxed – the Costco for millennials
- Astronomer helps CVG airport transform their customer experience + M25 Group’s investment and interview with the Astronomer team
- Greenhouse explains the top 3 value adds to tracking recruitment data
- Triplelift delivers advanced programmatic real-time advertising with VoltDB
Industry Trends
- Venture Capital returns to normalcy in Q1 2017
- US states renamed by countries’ GDPs + renters now rule 50% of US cities
- 3 trillion in forgotten debt
- Pinterest to go public soon?
- Domino’s stock has outperformed Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon
- Walmart launching a tech incubator
- Theranos offers shares for promise not to sue
- The next start-up hubs
- Shenzhen: the Silicon Valley of hardware
- China investing in US startups and worrying US
- Amazon worth more Walmart, Costco, and Target combined
- YouTube’s TV service
- A win for Apple in Beijing over patent ruling
- Tesla is now worth more than Ford and GM to become most valuable US automaker
- VC unicorn odds of success under 1%
- Silicon Valley no longer #1 for talent
Artificial Intelligences
- AI has a multitasking problem and deep learning may have a solution
- Elon’s crusade to stop the apocalypse
- Amazon’s invite-only MARS conference
- 3 applications of deep learning in big data analytics
- AI and legal work
- Six jobs eliminated for every robot + why American jobs are most at risk + preparing your career for AI + how automation can be beneficial to workers
- Snapchat becoming a search engine
- Bot predictions for 2017 + US of AI startups
- Benefits and risks of AI + Elon’s crusade against AI
Commerce
- The retail evolution + how e-commerce is making stores relevant again
- Athleisure, a bubble ready to burst? Instagram killing retail stores
- Instagram expands ‘tap to view’ to thousands of US retailers + letting people book appointments with businesses
IoT Software Stack
- Network infiltration of smart cities
- Startups: should you buy IoT from them?
Work Platforms
- Does the gig economy celebrates overworking?
- Didi potentially raising largest VC round ever
Content and Experiences
- Catching a real ball in VR + Ulysses into VR for class
- Assisted suicide in VR + VR for trauma care
BlockchainBeyond Currency
- Blockchain-styled solutions for healthcare on the rise
- Blockchain voting may lead to liquid democracy globally in 20 years
Healthcare
- What happens when diagnosis is automated?
- First successful gene therapy against human aging?
- Smartwatch and wearables report
- 2nd opinions from doctors vary in 88% of cases
Business and Personal Strategy
- 10 principles for sustainable innovation in business
- Developer Survey Results 2017
- Avoid vanity metrics
- Map to $1M ARR
- Initiate to become successful
- 8 habits to make you more successful
- Why some startups ideas aren’t big enough for VCs