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The FBI is mad because it keeps getting into locked iPhones without Apple’s help
Riana Pfefferkorn Contributor The debate over encryption continues to drag on without end. In recent months, the discourse has largely swung away from encrypted smartphones to focus instead on end-to-end encrypted messaging. But a recent press conference by the heads of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau…
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Strategies for surviving the COVID-19 Series B squeeze
Mikael Johnsson Contributor Mikael Johnsson is a co-founder and general partner of Oxx, a venture capital firm investing in European SaaS companies at growth stage. A generation of companies now needs to forget what it has learned. The world has changed for everyone, and nowhere is this more true than…
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The future of flight can be energy-efficient
Damon Vander Lind Contributor Damon Vander Lind is general manager for Heaviside at Kitty Hawk, a company whose mission is to free the world from traffic with eVTOL vehicles. We are at the dawn of a new era in transportation. At the turn of the 20th century, cars began to…
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Create a 90-day timeline after fundraising to strengthen investor-founder ties
Medha Agarwal Contributor Medha Agarwal is a former founder and an early-stage investor at Redpoint Ventures, working with entrepreneurs focused on fintech, marketplaces and the future of work. As the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the nature of businesses and the way we work, it’s making even more clear how important…
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Why don’t more VCs care about good tech (yet)?
Johannes Lenhard Contributor One of the VC partners in a well-established London firm told me straight out: Venture capital is money [laughs], it is a risky asset class, perhaps the wildest asset class […] and it has the biggest possible returns. I have detailed elsewhere how I think caring more…
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Crypto Startup School: How to scale companies using crypto
Zoran Basich Contributor Zoran Basich is the crypto editor for Andreessen Horowitz. More posts by this contributor Crypto Startup School: A new type of computer drives waves of innovation Editor’s note: Andreessen Horowitz’s Crypto Startup School brought together 45 participants from around the U.S. and overseas in a seven-week course…
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