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Qualcomm Sets Up New, $100M AI Investment Fund

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San Diego-based Qualcomm announced on Wednesday that it has launched a brand new, venture capital investment fund, which will focus only an artificial intelligence. The first investment out of the fund is in AnyVision , a startup working on face, body, and object recognition. READ MORE>>.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Your deck should be so good that a VC asks you for permission to show it to his or her portfolio companies.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Your goal is to invest in engineering (to maintain your product lead), new offices / locations (to capture markets before others), marketing (to capture consumer attention before others do) … all of these activities consume cash often in advance of the revenue they generate.

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Interview with Jeff Kukowski, SecureAuth

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When a credential is stolen, you want to know if they show up at your front door, and what might you want to with an account if it looks like it's being used by a cyber criminal known to be associated with malicious activity on the Internet? The main institutional money in the company is a firm called Toba Ventures.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

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To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. We've also invested in some other companies we haven't announced yet, but we're very active already in the e-sports area.

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Interview with Jerry Fitch, Teridian Semiconductor

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However, as that evolved, as a management team we did a good job going after that with our IP, and that piece went well. Jerry Fitch: California is always a bell-weather for this kind of activity. There's similar activity internationally. We never would have thought, five years ago, that that would happen as well.

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