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• What VC funds wish your startup knew about their selection process

  Venture Capital is a competitive game, so understanding the VC process is integral to your success. There’s no doubt that some qualities are non-negotiable for VC funds. VCs want to see a large and growing market, a highly capable team, a deep understanding of the strategy around ...

  • J. Skyler Fernandes

• How enterprise social media like Slack can improve well-being in the workplace

  We live in a world where technology is increasingly ubiquitous and showing no signs of slowing down. Whether in our professional or personal lives, the always-on, always-connected nature of life in 2019 seems to be unavoidable. And aside from the internet itself, of all the technologies, ...

  • Baxter Willis

• Why Silicon Valley will always need Wall Street

  The impressive rise of Silicon Valley as it became the global hub of technological innovation certainly took many on Wall Street by surprise. As time has gone on, I’ve seen many begin to muse that the era of Wall Street’s financial dominance over technology could be over, especially ...

  • Christopher Porteous

• [Best of 2019] Why farmers hold the answer to making the personal data economy work

  In the consumer world, personal data has been used as a “payment” for services, whether that be a Facebook account or a grocery discount or a loyalty rewards program. If you take the Facebook example, consumers “pay” for the service by supplying data which in turn makes the ...

  • Jason Tatge

• What TikTok’s Chinese predecessor can reveal about its future

  TikTok’s sudden popularity might’ve taken many by surprise as the app burst out on the social media scene seemingly out of nowhere. But TikTok’s origin is clear, it’s based on its one year-older predecessor, Douyin 抖音 which has over 500 million monthly active users. New ...

  • Fabian Bern

• 12 optimization tips for businesses looking to tap into wearable tech

  From the Apple Watch Series 3 to the Fitbit Versa and all the new tech in-between, wearable tech has been taking over for quite a while now. As the wearable tech market grows, businesses are looking for opportunities to join in. To learn how to optimize a business for wearable ...

  • Scott Gerber

• The first self-driving car by 2020: just another lofty promise?

  It seems we have another ambitious promise from a leader in the autonomous vehicle industry. Earlier this month, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and a bunch of other futuristic startups, said that he anticipates completion of fully autonomous technology by the end of 2019, with their self-driving ...

  • Larry Alton

• Jeff Bezos promised drone deliveries by 2019 — but 3 things are missing

  Five years ago, Jeff Bezos promised in a 60 Minutes interview that drones would deliver goods to our homes by 2019. With the new year upon us, it’s exciting to think that drone package delivery could be a reality in the US, just as it’s starting to happen in other countries. While ...

  • Tim Bean

• Sears’ bankruptcy underscores the need for tech innovation in retail

  The demise of Sears provides a perfect cautionary tale. By all accounts, the former retail giant -- which was in a “death ...

  • Daniel Gabay

• Why online service providers shouldn’t partner with big tech

  Hosting providers like GoDaddy, 1&1 Ionos, and even Wix and Squarespace, started out offering a single service to business ...

  • Dvir Ben-Aroya

• The worrying trend of children’s data being sold on the dark web

  When was the last time you got a data breach notification, a letter in the mail about a potential compromise, or an email ...

  • Emily Wilson

• Developers are our best bet to stop Apple’s App Store monopoly

  Any day now, the US Supreme Court will issue a decision in a case called Apple Inc. v. Pepper, where a group of iPhone users ...

  • Harrison McAvoy