NewTV, a new company focused on short-form video, just raised $1 billion dollars. NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg. Their idea is that consumers will want a subscription service for short-form entertainment for mobile rather than full-length movies. The plan is to create 10-minute programs; think YouTube meets Netflix. Read more>>
Monthly Archives: August 2018
The disruptor that doesn’t want to be disrupted
A subsidiary of JetBlue Airways is investing in startups to better understand travel technology, guard against disruption, and position its parent for the future. Two years ago the company founded JetBlue Technology Ventures, a wholly owned subsidiary based in the southern San Francisco Bay area known as Silicon Valley, which has become a global centre for technological innovation. Read more>>
How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System
In early June, at the invitation of the European Commission to Brussels (Belgium), I toured some fascinating AI and blockchain-based projects. Across industrial sectors, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “AI doctor”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa. Read more>>
Investors Keep Giving Startups More Funding Than They Need. Here’s Why the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet May Cause Indigestion
“This is the best time to raise money ever,” Slack founder Stewart Butterfield told The New York Times in April 2015. In the months that followed, I and many other observers cited Butterfield’s thoroughly rational exuberance as evidence of a historic tech bubble, one data point among many that private-company valuations had become untethered from reality to a degree that made a painful correction not just inevitable but imminent. Read more>>
Metal 3D printing startup Velo3D launches its first product
For three years, Velo3D has operating in stealth mode. The bay area based startup has largely managed to fly on the radar, in spite of raising an impressive $90 million since launching in June 2015. Today, however, the 120 person company is finally ready to discuss what it’s been working on, just as it announces the availability of its first product. Read more>>
How Airbnb went from renting air beds for $10 to a $30 billion hospitality behemoth
When we first wrote about the company a decade ago, it was a spare website cobbled together by its founders for the low low price of $20,000. In the years since, the marketplace Airbnb created has radically transformed the rental landscape in cities, created an entirely new hospitality market and surged to a valuation of roughly $31 billion. Read more>>
Startups Serving The Elderly Are Tech’s Next Big Market
Tech is taking note of seniors, a group of potential users often dismissed by the industry. And for any of us who have been called to help an older relative with technology, the stereotypes concerning an elder’s use of technology are familiar. But trends suggest that aging Americans are on board with their younger counterparts. Read more>>
Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch venture rolls out world’s biggest airplane for weekend tests
Stratolaunch, the launch venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, took the world’s biggest airplane out of its hangar this weekend at California’s Mojave Air and Space Port and revved up its engines in preparation for the next step toward shooting rockets into space from midair. Read more>>
The Difference Between Pitching an Idea vs. Pitching a Product
As one of the leading accounting and tax solution focused on growing startups, inDinero works with many founders who have questions about fundraising. How and when to find investors and what to do once you’ve landed the perfect investor or lender — from a financial perspective. Read more>>
Being a young startup founder was isolating—here’s how I coped
One thing I never expected when I founded a startup on my own shortly after college graduation was the level of isolation I felt at times. Almost five years later, it’s safe to say that workplace isolation is no longer a concern—my company, Parcel, was acquired by Walmart in the fall of 2017. Still, the techniques I learned for coping with those lonelier early days remain fundamental to my working style. Read more>>
InnoTrepTech 