A post from Henry Ward of Carta on the launch of CartaX. “It is an odd artifact of history that private markets have zero liquidity, public markets have hyper-liquidity, and there is nothing in between.” | learn more
“The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack. This latest cyber-assault is effectively an attack on the United States and its government and other critical […]
“The first thing to confront is that as a CEO you’re the company’s primary salesperson. It doesn’t matter what industry, what product, what revenue model, what stage of development.” | learn more
What I like about this is the author’s process for idea discovery—going and talking to people in the target market, then building a product that launches quickly to get real feedback. At the same time, this left me with a […]
“A trip of 500 km on one charge. A recharge from zero to full in 10 minutes. All with minimal safety concerns. The solid-state battery being introduced by Toyota promises to be a game changer not just for electric vehicles […]
In a recent interview, he said his foundation is now targeting a 60-70% allocation to venture capital. Wow! It seems the target has been going up over the recent years, a decision driven by low interest rates. | learn more
This newsletter is not powered by Substack, though I did consider switching in early 2018. “Many good points have been made on both sides, I’m compiling this writing here.” | learn more
There’s a great explainer video of the protein-folding problem included in this write-up. “In a major scientific advance, the latest version of our AI system AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to the protein folding problem by the organisers […]
A research paper by Saras D. Sarasvathy highlights his learnings from a deep survey of 30 founders in the late 1990s. He concludes that entrepreneurs use “effectual” rather than causal reasoning. “[I]t begins with a given set of means and […]
“Despite the economic backdrop, startups continue to plow ahead. One of the biggest changes in the last year in the US is the Fed’s stated low interest rate policy for the next three years. What impact are we seeing in […]