A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 23, 2023

To which I responded: When they want to shut it down, I say double down The most powerful technologies send waves of fear through the establishment. When you see that fear in their eyes, invest in the cause of that fear. USV TEAM POSTS:

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2023

But before something can become mainstream, it takes a consumer interface that allows everyone to see the power of the technology firsthand. Of course, a lot of other things happened in tech, startups, and web3 in 2023, but these two things are the ones that matter the most.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

But like web3 before it and the internet before that, this new technology will bring litigation and regulatory scrutiny that will raise, and ultimately resolve many important issues. But as important as regulatory clarity is to web3, it pales in importance with the need for a “ChatGPT moment” for blockchain-based technologies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s not that technology has eliminated our capacity to connect on a human level; it’s just that digital connections and online exchanges will never achieve the same depth as face-to-face interactions. So, how can we minimize the impact of technology to promote more interpersonal connections?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

And technology based products and services are benefitting from these losses. 3/ Technology based commerce solutions gain when less people venture into stores to buy groceries, clothes, and other consumer products. These changes are not temporary, although the velocity of the changes may be. And that is a good thing for society.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Secretary Of Treasury, in his last month in office, is giving us a textbook case of how not to regulate important technology innovation. Technology can, will, and should change this. The issue is “unhosted wallets” and how regulated exchanges and other “hosted wallets” interact with them. This is a big deal.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

Rapid advancements in technology—including artificial intelligence, IoT technology and blockchain—make it crucial for entrepreneurs to stay informed about technological advancements. Be it a product or service, technology and digital tools add to enhanced reach, innovation and overall customer experience.

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The Seraf Compass

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Whether you are located in a hotbed of technology like Silicon Valley, a huge emerging market such as China, or in the ancient city of Byblos, chances are you will stumble upon a collection of entrepreneurs working to create new, vibrant companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2022

Technology is a driving force of marketing, and its role is poised to scale in the future, empowering marketers to create ever-more-personal experiences that connect consumers to brands and products. As new technologies capture and analyze data, the volume will only increase. Move past data. Foster a human connection.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Smart Technology : The adoption of smart logistics solutions like RFID and IoT sensors allows for real-time tracking. Louis is close to the end-users of agricultural technology. AgTech Accelerators : The Yield Lab, Biogenerator Labs, and other accelerators are helping startups scale and commercialize their technologies.

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 10, 2023

A decade or two ago, most of the new funds were traditional VC funds located in technology hubs in the US and a few other countries around the globe. One of the biggest trends we witnessed over the past few years is the rapid pace of new early stage venture fund formation combined with significant growth in the amount of capital invested.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Tesla has offered to share its innovative battery technology and other software with the automotive industry. At the core is the nucleus: the interactions between John Deere and the farmers powered by a digital network, and drawing on a host of technologies including weather monitoring sensors, telemetry, AI and machine learning.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Maybe this is the gateway technology that allows the metaverse to take a leap forward and for us to finally get holodecks like in Star Trek. They recognize the importance of being thoughtful about the input and training processes in machine learning—especially when it comes to technologies that kids will interact with.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s a state-of-the-art studio with the latest audio, lighting and video technology as well as a 14m-wide digital LED screen and broadcast cameras to enrich virtual events,” explains Arosh. “We turned our warehouse into a television and live-stream broadcast centre. We created Studio 45, our pivot during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

But regardless, we are starting to see how technologies like crypto can open up a market to everyone, or at least a lot more people, and that is very exciting to me. Otis could have been built on a blockchain and these security interests in Air Jordans could trade on a blockchain, but that is not how it works today.

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Venture Well

OCTOBER 28, 2024

VentureWell Vice President, Ventures, Christina Tamer recaps her trip to Climate Week NYC 2024, where she explored pathways to market for transformative sustainability technologies. The post Bringing Transformative Climatetech to Market: A Visit to Climate Week NYC appeared first on VentureWell.

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Revolution

MARCH 7, 2024

“As a female leader in STEM, I want to be asked smart questions about where technologies are headed, and how I’m leading my company and team through one of the greatest technological advancements in our lifetime.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2020

Your remote workforce will be entirely reliant on technology to perform their essential duties—and the data collected since the coronavirus shutdown supports this. She enjoys informing readers about topics spanning industries such as technology, business, finance, culture, wellness, hospitality and tourism. Tech-Savvy.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

ReFi is an idea, like DeFi, based on a set of web3 technologies and economics, that suggests that efforts to combat climate change can and will be funded by the crowd. Because web3 presents a set of tools, technologies, and economics that can and is being used to bring badly needed innovation, innovators, and funds to the fight.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 1, 2023

Embrace Technology Along the way and early enough, I discovered that innovation goes hand-in-hand with technology, which is a crucial tool for business growth and success. Though not within my main skill set, I embraced technology and rode the wave of digital transformation across different sectors in my industries.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Persistence for success in the technology industry in Bolivia. Her two companies, Kumi Solutions and Panal Fresh , are focused on providing ways to utilize technology to better people’s lives. Doing this is a sort of mental exercise that prevents her from panicking and instead allows her to think of potential solutions. “If

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Visualize this: self-driving cars on busy city streets, skillfully avoiding obstacles and giving way to pedestrians; warehouse robots shuttling freely in large logistics centers, accurately picking, sorting, and placing items, […]

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 29, 2021

We don’t yet understand how to make nuclear reactors that generate energy with fusion in a sustainable way, although there has been a lot of exciting technological progress on fusion over the last few decades. There are a number of promising technologies that are attempting to do these things.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

At USV, we have begun that reallocation of capital and we will be investing heavily in companies and technologies that can help the world address this existential threat. It will require countries and institutions to re-allocate capital from other endeavors to fight against a warming planet.

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Dream It

MARCH 20, 2020

Their proprietary artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology enables health systems to humanize comment data from patients and employees, translating massive volumes of critical feedback into actionable insights that can be used to transform the health care experience.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Contributed to EO by Bob Marsh , a keynote speaker and Chief Revenue Officer of Bluewater , a design-forward technology company that helps craft moments that connect and inspire. As leaders, it’s our job to implement those insights throughout our team to break down silos and create more connected, collaborative companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

In fact, we published our strategy some time ago and announced we were moving to a “ barbell strategy ” of funding at the Seed level, mostly avoiding the A/B rounds and then increasing our investments in the earliest phases of technology growth.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When a new technology comes to market, we often look for “native” applications of that technology. What is a “native” AI application? What is a “native” Web3 application? He started out by laying out the new primitives that mobile smartphones made available to developers.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

That is but one example of very promising technologies that suffer from negative public opinion. So what can those of us in the business of creating and bringing these important technologies to market do to reverse these negative opinions? Way too many people don’t trust vaccines and don’t avail themselves of them.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JULY 16, 2021

We have made greater use of technology, especially social media, to reach a global audience,” she says. Using live streaming, videoconferencing, digital content, and messaging technologies, she is able to interact directly with the people seeking to be a part of her institute. Our activities were exclusively in Antigua and Barbuda.

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