After 20 years in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere. Before that, it sent a bunch of stunning photos of the planet, its rings, and its moons. |learn more
Popular Science tackles the big question. | learn more
“Stem cell researchers aim to cure diabetes, heal injuries, and even regenerate body parts. Recently, the FDA approved clinical trials at Sanford to use stem cells to heal non-healing leg wounds.” | learn more
“One global technology company my team works with, for example, discovered that, on average, its sales employees didn’t understand or know about 22% of its product features, even though they believed they did.” | learn more
“Here are the retailers that are bringing in the most dollars per square foot of real estate, according to CoStar.” | learn more
These “DApps” run on top of the Ethereum protocol. Some have really ambitious expectations. For example, BitNation intends to create a virtual nation with passports that are accepted by physical nations! These are all pretty clearly early, but interesting nonetheless. | learn […]
Investor Homan Yuen writes about the economics of venture capital funds, making the case for why most require $1B+ exits to make their funds work. This is an easy-to-understand overview of the subject. |learn more
This has a similar theme to the article above, except it’s written by Fred Wilson with a specific focus on his wildly successful firm USV. The most interesting part for me is the window into his thinking about how blockchain […]
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Juicero is a now-defunct Silicon Valley startup that sold an expensive machine that squeezed juice packets into a glass. Then people realized that you could squeeze them just as well by hand. Things didn’t end well. Tovola’s smart oven hopes […]