tech, startups, internet
Early pitch decks of 13 billion-dollar startups.
CB Insights managed to get their hands on a bunch of neat early pitch decks from companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, LinkedIn and WeWork. | learn more
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tech, startups, internet
Union Square Ventures has a new investment thesis.
“USV backs trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols.” Their blog post has an interesting background on how this developed, and way more detail. |learn more
tech, startups, internet
Machine learning models are easy to trick.
“But adversarial examples keep cropping up: seemingly trivial changes to objects (even a single pixel) can stump an AI or send a self-driving car barelling [sic] through a stop sign.” | learn more
tech, startups, internet
Tesla Autopilot vs GM SuperCruise.
Alex Roy of TheDrive does a head-to-head comparison of the two semi-autonomous technologies. Though I’m a huge Tesla fan, I must admit the SuperCruise outshines Autopilot in some comparisons. | learn more
tech, startups, internet
A founder’s guide to conversations with Midwestern VCs.
Kansas City VC Taylor Clauson shares helpful tips for talking to investors – specifically those in the Midwest. | learn more
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How Amazon’s startup fund bets on Alexa.
“Enter the Alexa Fund. Born with a $100 million investment from Amazon in 2015, the year after the debut of the Echo, the fund is part of the company’s effort to identify more Alexa-showcasing companies and products around the world.” |learn […]
tech, startups, internet
Your guide to AI in Q4 2017.
This is the most recent issue of the most in-depth newsletter about AI that I’ve ever seen. The author Nathan Benaich deserves a standing ovation. | learn more
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The autonomy economy.
Last year, a16z partner Benedict Evans published Cars and second order consequences, which digs into the idea of what happens after all cars are autonomous and electric. This series of videos by fellow a16z partner Frank Chen digs into each theme in turn: […]
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Think3 is giving SaaS founders a reset button.
Their new $1B fund will buy SaaS startups that haven’t reached unicorn status so that the founders can move on to found new startups. | learn more
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Gesture-based smart home tech looks neat!
Telling Alexa to turn on the light is cool, but pointing to the light to turn it on is even cooler. | learn more