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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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6 Mistakes Often Made Positioning Against Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

If your early traction highlights an opportunity they have missed, they can mobilize their huge resources and run over you. Highlight your world-class team as the secret sauce. This is one of the most frequent responses I hear, and is rarely convincing. Proclaim your solution as a paradigm shift.

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ProProfs | An Online Tool for All

Tech Zulu Event

Fast forward two and a half years later and ProProfs is one of the leading online tools that lets the public and private sectors to create online quizzes, polls, surveys, flashcards, and classes with an extensive list of options. Creating an online class or tutorial is simple on ProProfs. Try out the online quiz maker for free here.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

The poor performance of the asset class (this analysis has largely been wrong as I pointed out here –> most analyses were clumsy rear-view mirror looks at the data). Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). On the surface the narratives have been. The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. Would they build a world class team. Were they ambitious?

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Samsung Unveils New Line of Stylish Branded, Armageddon Surviving Memory Cards

Tech Zulu Event

So unless you’re a volcano climbing strongman competitor who goes base jumping into 1,000 ft underwater caves (always with mobile devices in tow), I’m pretty sure these memory cards will survive 95%+ of normal consumer use. Product specs and pricing are as follows: High Speed Series – Specifications. SPEED CLASS.

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