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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

What if an influencer collective could be truly collaborative, rather than fodder for a depressing Netflix reality show ? A few minutes away from downtown Atlanta, Collab Studio ATL describes itself as “a tech-based one-stop shop for content creators, HBCU students and young entrepreneurs to achieve their business goals.”

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Data Elite | First Venture Lab for Big Data Launched by Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway & Others

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Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Venture lab & early stage fund for big data startups and scientists. No room for failure.

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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?

Both Sides of the Table

Founder, Founder, Founder At Upfront we talk regularly about how 70% of our investment decision in Seed and A rounds is the quality of the entrepreneur and 30% is the quality of the idea. Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

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But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. And while the US had FANG (Facebook, Amazon/Apple, Netflix and Google) China has BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent). Unless of course something Trump’s our good weather.

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

socalTECH

To tackle this, we formed Retina in 2017, so that we could help businesses find out the true lifetime value of their customers, not just after they had them for years, but when they just walked in the door. We've started working with businesses to help them rank their customer service tickets, based on customer lifetime value.

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Why You Shouldn’t Be Fooled by Your Own Expertise

Both Sides of the Table

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. Coming back with an empty chamber for the third battle is much worse than not coming back.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. We are seeing the emergence of the “digital living room&# and yet Netflix, Apple & Google all seem to be better positioned to have a seat at our couches.

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