9 Best Articles in 2021
CB Insights
Blockchain Investment Trends In Review
CB Insights
~15 min read · 215 saves · From 2017 · A data-driven deep dive on the evolution of the blockchain landscape — and how VCs, token sales, and consortia are shaping its future.
Harvard Business Review
What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?
Harvard Business Review
5 min read · 78 saves · From 2017 · Make investments and monitor their performance.
In Startups
Sam Altman
How To Invest In Startups
Sam Altman
10 min read · 212 saves · 2020-01-13 · There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a...
investmentcalculator.io
Investment Calculator
investmentcalculator.io
3 min read · 28 saves · From 2018 · A beautifully simple calculator to help you calculate the potential value of your retirement investments and visualize their growth. Based on your inputs, we also make suggestions on how to increase…
Mark Suster
How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks
Mark Suster
10 min read · 90 saves · From 2018 · One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have…
Fast Company
The Most Important Tech Trends Of 2018, According To Top VCs
Fast Company
7 min read · 255 saves · From 2018 · From saving energy to helping humans help machines, this year’s investments will try to help startups make more progress in areas that already matter.
WIRED
DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
WIRED
5 min read · 212 saves · 2019-08-14 · Alphabet’s DeepMind unit, conqueror of Go and other games, is losing lots of money. Continued deficits could imperil investments in AI.
medium.com
Venture Investments Are Not Bets
medium.com
2 min read · 17 saves · From 2017 · Countless times over the last decade, I’ve heard other venture investors refer to their investments as “bets.”
Andrew Chen
The Power User Curve: The best way to understand your most engaged users
Andrew Chen
7 min read · 120 saves · From 2018 · [Today we have an essay on one of the common frameworks we use to analyze investments at Andreessen Horowitz: The Power User Curve. I worked closely with Li Jin, a partner on the investing team, to…
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news.columbia.edu
University Announcement on Fossil Fuel Investments
news.columbia.edu
3 min read · 14 saves · Jan 22nd · The University does not hold any direct investments in publicly traded oil and gas companies, and is formalizing this policy of non-investment for the foreseeable future.
In Startups
sacerdoti.substack.com
Investing in Public: Non-Obvious Lessons from 100+ Angel Investments
sacerdoti.substack.com
~14 min read · 46 saves · Jan 6th · As the CEO of Pipedream, an API integration platform, I work in public and collaborate with our community of over 100,000 developers on Slack, GitHub Discussions, and through our public roadmap.…
Sifted
European Commission makes its first equity investments into startups
Sifted
1 min read · Jan 6th · The European Commission has made its first direct equity investments into startups — backing 42 companies from around Europe.
pscp.tv
Shelly Kramer: "#BIZTALKS: Smart Investments for the Intelligent Future of Business"
pscp.tv
2020-12-02 · #BIZTALKS: Smart Investments for the Intelligent Future of Business
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Recode
Reddit raised $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion
Recode
5 min read · 107 saves · From 2017 · It’s going on a hiring spree and redesigning its website.
medium.com
The Beginning of Uber
medium.com
75 saves · From 2017 · Garrett Camp · Since we just passed the ninth anniversary of the idea of Uber (originally UberCab, in Aug 2008), I thought it would be interesting to…
The New York Times
Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments
The New York Times
~12 min read · 85 saves · From 2017 · Leaked files show that a state-controlled bank in Moscow helped to fuel Yuri Milner’s ascent in Silicon Valley, where the Russia investigation has put tech companies under scrutiny.
OECD Publications
Financial Education, Savings and Investments: An Overview
OECD Publications
1 min read · 18 saves · From 2012 · Financial Education, Savings and Investments Savings and investments by individuals are important both for personal financial well-being and for economic growth. Many governments try to encourage…
Axios
SoftBank keeps walking away from startup investments
Axios
62 saves · 2020-01-06 · It keeps bailing on deals, leaving companies in the lurch.
TechCrunch
Where VCs are looking for voice startup investments
TechCrunch
2 min read · 34 saves · 2019-11-04 · Led by Amazon’s Alexa, smart speakers’ install base is expected to reach 200 million units worldwide by 2020. A quarter of Americans over the age of 12 own a smart speaker, and the majority of those…
Science Magazine
Scientifically assess impacts of sustainable investments
Science Magazine
78 saves · From 2018 · The practice of selecting and managing financial assets based on their social and environmental performance is undergoing rapid growth and fundamental change. Investors are increasingly pressed by…
In Fintech
blog.plaid.com
Mastercard and Visa make strategic investments in Plaid
blog.plaid.com
15 saves · 2019-09-16 · Today, we are excited to announce that Mastercard and Visa have made strategic investments in Plaid.
The Guardian
Russia funded Facebook and Twitter investments through Kushner associate
The Guardian
~12 min read · 81 saves · From 2017 · Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through business associate of Trump’s son-in-law, leaked files reveal
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