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How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? - The New York Times
Ray Dalio’s investing tactics have always been a closely kept secret, even inside Bridgewater Associates. Several years ago, some of Wall Street’s ... (2023)
Syndicate - Transform any wallet into a Web3 DAO Investment Club
Web3 Investment Clubs, Syndicate’s first mainstream crypto-native social investing tool built on Syndicate Protocol. It launched today in public be... (2022)
New Ideas for Paris’s Outdated Infrastructure - CityLab
'Reinvent Paris II' Is for a Post-Car Future. After a criticized first installment, the city's design competition has a wider talent pool and a fai... (2019)
‘Breaches Everywhere’: Flooding Bursts Midwest Levees, and Tough Questions Follow - The New York Times
Hundreds of miles of levees in the Midwest have been overwhelmed by the floods, leaving “Swiss cheese” infrastructure and reigniting a flood contro... (2019)
The Valuation vs. Traction Matrix - Jason Calacanis
Jason Calacanis is a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of the popular podcasts This Week in Startups and Angel. As a “scout” fo... (2019)
From Bezos to Walton, Big Investors Back Fund for ‘Flyover’ Start-Ups - The New York Times
The fund started by an AOL co-founder and an author has attracted a Who’s Who of American business to invest in the heartland’s entrepreneurs. (2019)
Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley - The New York Times
About a dozen venture capitalists recently took a bus tour through the Midwest, and a funny thing happened: They caught the heartland bug. (2019)
Opinion | Miami Battles Rising Seas - The New York Times
In 2017, voters agreed to finance adaptation efforts through property taxes. Now the first phase of those projects is underway. (2019)
Fund Investing Versus Fund Management – Haystack.vc
When I started out investing (via a fund — not my money), I was just investing based on a simple schedule: About once a month, invest $25K into one... (2019)
More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost - The New York Times
Frustrated with the perverse incentives of fast growth, founders are criticizing the investment model that built the tech industry as we know it. (2019)
Unbundling Craigslist Garners Big Funding - $8.87 Billion Raised to Date by Startups
In 2012, Spark Capital took a look at the marketplace startups carving out niches from CraigsList. Today, those startups have raised $8.87B in fund... (2015)
What is in a Due Diligence Data Room ?
What is a Due Diligence Data Room? This overview cover all the details and provides an extensive checklist to help your get prepared. (2018)
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and others worth $170 billion are launching a clean-energy fund to fight climate change
Perhaps the richest pool of investors ever assembled has come together to save the environment. (2018)
Creating GP-LP Alignment: Why Terms Matter
As a firm that focuses on three distinct types of venture investment, we spend considerable time and energy contemplating how these categories are ... (2018)
Crypto Unicorn Bitmain Weighs $18 Billion IPO, One of World's Largest - CoinDesk
Bitmain is going public in China. The IPO might make it one of the most valuable startups, cryptocurrency or not, to ever debut on the public markets. (2018)
Where'd You Get That Token? 7 Platforms Managing ICOs - CoinDesk
A handful of platforms have launched to support token issuers with their sales. Which one an issuer uses may say something about the token itself. (2018)
Microsoft Buys GitHub for $7.5 Billion – Andreessen Horowitz
Six years ago we invested an “eye-popping” $100 million into GitHub. This was not only a Series A investment and the first institutional money ever... (2018)
Review: The Broad Is an Old-Fashioned Museum for a New Gilded Age - The New York Times
The $140 million museum opening in Los Angeles next week is devoted to new art, but needs more surprises. (2018)
Katzenberg’s NewTV Video Startup Raises $800 Million - Bloomberg
Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg has secured about $800 million in financing for his video startup NewTV, which the company will use to fund high... (2018)
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can. - The New York Times
Inspired by Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth, companies elsewhere are burning cash in hopes of being the next big thing. (2018)
A16z, USV Lead $12 Million Funding for CryptoKitties - CoinDesk
CryptoKitties will break away from its developer, Axiom Zen, after raising $12 million of venture capital. (2018)
For investors, the future of education technology is now the workplace
SAN DIEGO — After several years of waiting for the K-12 market to grow faster, and a couple of years getting schooled in higher education, educatio... (2018)
10 Largest VC-backed IPOs of past decade
Spotify's public market debut is on par with the largest VC-backed IPOs of the decade. Spotify's ferocious public debut Tuesday was the second lar... (2018)
Seven VCs’ Tips For Surviving A Due-Dilligence Check In 2017 | Fast Company
Investors are more cautious than they used to be, but a higher bar for startup founders means more chances to prove your mettle. New startups cour... (2016)
The Most Active VCs In Ed Tech And Their Investments In One Infographic | CB Insignts (2016)
We ranked the top VC and CVC investors in ed tech and visualized their portfolio companies. Top investors include NewSchools Venture Fund, 500 Star... (2016)
Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley - The New York Times
About a dozen venture capitalists recently took a bus tour through the Midwest, and a funny thing happened: They caught the heartland bug. (2018)
By Reinventing The Knight Foundation, Alberto Ibarguen Helped Reinvent The News | Fast Company
This year’s Knight News Challenge focuses on how to use information and data to make healthier communities. "So where the Knight Foundation once... (2013)
YC’s Series A Diligence Checklist
When we launched our Series A program a few months ago, we decided that what we learn along the way shouldn’t just be kept inside of YC. We're goin... (2018)
Taking a cut of student’s future paychecks has Silicon Valley investors funding education — Quartz
The first experiment was a failure. In the 1970s, Yale University offered tuition to a group of students in exchange for a percentage of their futu... (2018)
Russian tech investors set up shop in Silicon Valley | CNBC
Drokova's new fund comes as relations between the United States and Russia remain fraught and foreign investments of all types into U.S. technology... (2018)
Mexico’s $7.5B Gamble to Disrupt the Panama Canal | WSJ Breaking Ground
Mexico’s $7.5 billion interoceanic corridor aims to ease a major chokehold in a global shipping mess and rival the Panama Canal. The stretch of lan... (2024)
Using real estate investing, This attorney plans to retire by 42 and live virtually tax-free | FIRE Starters
Seattle attorney Sylvia Hall worked off six figures in student debt on her path to financial independence. Now, she plans to use real estate to pay... (2024)
The end of globalization? How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act IRA changed the world | FT Film
The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s la... (2023)
Green Hydrogen in Namibia: This $10BN Desert Megaproject is a Game Changer
This project is worth the same as the country's entire GDP.Correction: The map at 3:41 shows the Walvis Bay. The Port of Luderitz is located furthe... (2023)
NSF's merit review process determines which research has the greatest potential
NSF receives about 50,000 research proposals every year. The Foundation's mission is to promote the progress of science, but it's able to support o... (2022)
Value Investing - Aswath Damodaran
Many investors, when asked to describe their investment philosophies, almost reflexively describe themselves as value investors. While some of that... (2020)
The Black Swan Event: Funding in the time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster
YouTube - Streamed April 22, 2020 The Black Swan Event: Funding in the time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (2020)
How Investors Think About Ideas - Kevin Hale - Y Combinator
Y Combinator Published on Feb 27, 2019 Kevin Hale on how investors think about ideas. Kevin is Visiting Partner at YC. Prior YC Kevin was the ... (2019)
How Private Equity Avoids Tax - WSJ
Financial News explains some of the main tactics used by experts in the private equity industry to minimise tax bills. Subscribe to the WSJ channel... (2019)
A Conversation with Andy Bromberg - Moderated by Geoff Ralston || YCombinator
YC Partner Geoff Ralston talks to CoinList Co-Founder and President Andy Bromberg. Transcript and additional content are here: https://www.startups... (2018)
Index Funds vs. Actively Managed Mutual Funds? - introduction (both sides) - Kiplinger
Should you invest in index funds or actively managed mutual funds? Kiplinger has the answer. (2018)
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder CEO Social Capital, on Money as Instrument of Change | Stanford
Stanford Graduate School of Business Published on Nov 13, 2017 During his View From The Top talk, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Soci... (2018)
The 10 Pieces Of A Successful Pitch Deck | CEO, Hatch Labs
From Founder CEO of Hatch Labs (2017)
Can Corporations Stop Climate Change? - The Daily podcast
One letter to executives around the world has prioritized climate change on corporate agendas. But will this make a difference without government r... (2020)
Berkshire Hathaway: (podcast) “Warren Buffett loses his touch” | The Economist on Spotify
Berkshire Hathaway has evolved into an acquisition engine of large industrial companies. Unfortunately, the returns look pedestrian (2018)
Morgan Housel - The Psychology of Money - Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby on Spotify. Morgan Housel is one of the world's foremost leaders on all thin... (2022)
a16z Podcast: Innovating in Bets – Andreessen Horowitz
Every organization, whether small or big, early or late stage — and every individual, whether for themselves or others — makes countless decisions ... (2019)
a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories by a16z
Stream a16z Podcast: Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories by a16z from desktop or your mobile device (2018)
a16z Podcast: Real Estate — Ownership, Asset, Economy – Andreessen Horowitz
The largest asset class in the United States is owner-occupied real estate, yet options for homeowners accessing this are very binary right now: ei... (2017)
Why Investing In Decentralized Platforms Requires A New Mental Model
Why Crypto Is The Biggest Disruptor To Hit VC In A Decade, The State of Crypto Today & Why Investing In Decentralized Platforms Requires A New Ment... (2018)
The Psychology of Money - by Morgan Housel
Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.... (2022)
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in football history: With 26 seconds remaining, and traili... (2019)
StartEngine: Equity Crowdfunding & Investment Opportunities
StartEngine is One of The Nation's Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platforms. StartEngine Allows Everyday People The Opportunity to Invest Online a... (2018)