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Peter Thiel And Josh Wolfe In Conversation At NYPL Wed. October 15

    PDF Link here. For more information on how to attend the Financial Services Leadership Forum, please contact fslf@nypl.org or 212.930.0856. 

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Lemelson Foundation: Inspiring and Enabling Next Generation’s Inventors

Note: We had the pleasure of  interviewing 2014 Lemelson-MIT Prize winner Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia in the September Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. What do the following people have in common? William...

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The 2 Biggest Emerging Opportunities in Cryptocurrency

A few interesting bits of cryptocurrency news were announced within the past week. First, a team and project near and dear to me, Blockstream, publicly launched with a white paper for the first time...

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Looking For a Business Co-Founder? Some Things To Look For:

A significant percentage of our investment at Lux Capital are thematic. i.e. we find an area of particular interest (e.g. computational sound) and then investigate the space to find people and...

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VC due diligence. Important, and helpful for everyone involved.

VC diligence is not a scientific process. I like to think every investor does some level of diligence even though there are some signs in today’s ‘hot’ market that some are willing to write big checks...

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On Theory, Turing, and the Diminishing Stability of the Status Quo

Like many in Silicon Valley, I recently saw Morten Tyldum’s “The Imitation Game”. Admittedly, I have a soft spot for underdog academic narratives and actually teared up. However, I couldn’t shake the...

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Choicing

Multiple Choice will be the new UX. From A/B testing to A/B/C choosing. It seems probable that UX interfaces will evolve to give you three choices. Most days you have a familiar routine. If you...

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Announcing Our Investment in Clarifai

Today is about Clarifai, it’s about an ambitious entrepreneur in Matt Zeiler, it’s about a true 0 to 1 step function breakthrough in technological ability, it’s about the reawakening of the New York...

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The Cinematic Moment We All Want & The Fear Behind The Curtain

The best experiences (and certainly the best pitches from founders and startups) are the ones when recounted that sound like critic pull-quotes from movies: “Bold, daring, original.” “So damn...

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Missed The Hype Part of the Cycle? Don’t Miss the Execution Phase!

Surely many of us have seen the famous Gartner Hype Cycle. It is reproduced every year by the IT research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc. We typically see the following version of it shared around...

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