Tag: Tech
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New York pulled neck and neck with the Bay Area as a startup hub in Q3. The Big Apple inked venture deals at a blistering pace, closing 403 to the Bay Area’s 515, according to a new report from Pitchbook. The Beast from the East Before COVID, running a startup…
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+ Bay Area, Finance, Investing, Money, New York, New York City, NYC, SF, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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AI is incredible, but expensive — the chips cost $30,000 and require tons of energy. But AI may be about to get 100X cheaper. Cheaper, Faster, Better A research team at Northwestern University was able to perform complex AI tasks with 100 times less energy than current AI models. From…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Chips, GPU, GPUs, LLM, ML, NVDA, NVIDIA, Semiconductors, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Early stage startups in New York continued to slog through the downturn in Q3. Average seed round size fell 16% from Q2, according to a new report from Primary Venture Partners. It’s Not the Summer Slump The funding market is highly seasonal. There are two big fundraising seasons — spring…
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+ Entrepreneur, Finance, Investing, Money, New York, New York City, NYC, Small Business, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Venture funding continued to fall in Q3, according to a new report from Pitchbook. VC funding was down 63% from the peak 2 years before, with just $73 billion closing in the latest quarter. It’s Bad, And It’s Getting Worse Funding fell even from Q2’s low level. Q3 funding was…
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How did I break into investing with no experience and no network? How can new angel investors get started? I dug into these topics and more in a new interview with the team at PIN. Here are a few of my favorite moments… How I Became an Angel I learned…
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+ Angel Investing, Finance, Interviews, Investing, Money, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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Let’s say you work construction. You lay down the pipes, then your co-worker pours the concrete. Oops – the pipes are in the wrong place. Now what? You have to waste a whole day jackhammering all that concrete out, then start over. But there’s a way to avoid mistakes like…
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+ AR, Augmented Reality, Construction, Finance, Investing, Money, SaaS, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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“In early 2000 when the market melted down, we had seven months of runway left and no revenue.” Roelof Botha That’s Roelof Botha, Senior Steward of Sequoia Capital. In a revealing new interview with Bloomberg, Botha digs into the toughest times at Paypal and why great companies are built in…
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+ Finance, Investing, Money, Paypal, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stock Market, Stocks, Tech, Venture Capital+
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“I can’t believe it actually said that.” That’s what I find myself saying over and over as I use the new LLM from Mistral AI. Released just this Wednesday, Mistral’s new model comes from a Paris-based team of top AI researchers. These DeepMind and Meta alums made headlines for a…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, GPT-4, Investing, LLM, Mistral, Money, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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“What do most investors get wrong?” I posed this question to a top investor this week. His answer: investing in companies with no revenue. Only about 10% of startups ever get a product out, he estimates. Of those, only around 10% will ever make a penny in revenue. This puts…
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Most e-commerce merchants can’t afford huge teams of developers. Amazon can. So how do you compete? By using Krepling! This cutting edge platform lets you integrate all your software tools easily, without code. You can quickly add new languages, currencies, and payment methods. This lets you expand worldwide in a…
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+ E-commerce, Investing, Money, Online store, Shopify, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital+
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