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Longtime LP Chris Douvos shares how COVID-19 could shake up venture industry
‘I think the venture industry as a whole is going to get, you know, kind of resized over the coming years’ Connie Loizos @Cookie / 7 hours Chris Douvos runs a fund of funds called Ahoy Capital that manages assets on behalf of numerous nonprofit institutions, endowments and foundations throughout…
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Looking back at Zoom’s ascent a year after it filed to go public
The friendly videoconference tool wasn’t an overnight consumer sensation Alex Wilhelm 7 hours Zoom, a video chat service then popular with corporations, filed to go public on March 22, 2019. Best known in venture and corporate circles, Zoom was far from a household name at the time. However, the groundwork…
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Where top VCs are investing in D2C
Don’t over-index the Casper mess; investors say there’s strength yet in the sector If you’re looking for toothbrushes, skin-care face masks, mattresses, glasses or even socks, there’s a digitally-native, direct-to-consumer (D2C) company or two that can help you out. And thanks to smart digital marketing, the cult followings that ensue…
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Join our conference call with immigration attorney Sophie Alcorn Tuesday at 1pm PDT
She’ll answer questions submitted by Extra Crunch subscribers Danny Crichton 7 hours The world has been turned upside-down the past few weeks, with flight cancellations, global travel bans and a massive slowdown of worldwide commerce. For immigrants to the United States here on work visas, these are particularly ambiguous and…
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Monitoring is critical to successful AI
Companies often identify AI and ML performance issues after the damage has been done Amit Paka Krishna Gade 8 hours Amit Paka Contributor Amit Paka is co-founder and chief product officer at Fiddler Labs, an explainable AI startup that enables enterprises to deploy and scale risk- and bias-free AI applications.…
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Startups are helping cloud infrastructure customers avoid vendor lock-in
For much of the history of enterprise technology, companies tended to buy from a single vendor because it made managing the entire affair much easier while giving them a “single throat to choke” when something went wrong. On the flip side, it also put customers at the mercy of said…
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