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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. What areas are going to change? What areas need to be disrupted?

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

That said, Navid Nathoo, Founder at The Knowledge Society , told us, “The ability to self-learn and self-start is a superpower that is not learned in school; in fact it must be learned outside of school.” We use Asana at Versatile VC for managing tasks and projects with other collaborators in our teams. 1) Your school. 1) Your school.

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Fintech startup Brex was among the bidders for SVB’s early-stage and growth portfolios

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, we’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.

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Sylvera takes $32M to build trust in carbon offsetting ratings

TechCrunch

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 “We have a mix of customers spanning corporate buyers, traders and exchanges,” it adds.

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7 Ways to Find Startup Funding

StartupNation

If your business sells a unique product, consider using a crowdfunding site like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to raise funds. You know you’ll require startup funding, but aren’t sure where to start. Will you self-fund and bootstrap? Will you take investment from others? On the road to funding. Apply for free grants. For veterans.

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Alternative VC Tech Stack: Chisos structured finance

David Teten VC

Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. Q: Who are your closest peers, and how do you differ? Q: What are the tools you’re using for your front office: sourcing , LP relations, investing analysis, etc.? We’re proud to share the next in PEVCtech ’s periodic series on the tech and analytics stack of investment management firms.

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“One Thing You Wish People Better Understood About Venture Capital” – Part V, featuring Ethan Kurzweil, Lily Lyman, Ashley Mayer, and Leshika Samarasinghe.

Hunter Walk

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. There were no ground rules other than to specify that ‘people’ could be founders, politicians, LPs, etc and that it would be default attributed but anonymous if they desired. Reporting out in batches of five.