While we may not be able to explain the strong performance of the stock market year-to-date, we can understand why certain technologies are accelerating their rate of adoption. Telecommunications tools like Zoom, modular factory robots like Bright Machines, and autonomous last-mile delivery drones are all seeing strong interest from investors as we get used to […]
It’s always a good laugh hearing the D&I charlatans talk about “Asians,” as if that’s an appropriate way to group nearly 60% of the world’s population. There are actually five distinct regions in Asia containing 48 different countries. One in four people on this planet is Southeast Asian, hailing from places like India, Pakistan, and […]
The larger a corporation becomes, the more processes are needed to control things, and sometimes you end up with a buzzword-laden monstrosity that’s nearly impossible to figure out. Warren Buffet often advises to “invest in what you know,” which is perhaps why IBM turned out to be one of his biggest investment mistakes. As longtime […]
We recently discussed how Moore’s Law is coming to an end which threatens global productivity. Nearly everything around us today that’s considered “high-tech” is here because the power of computing has doubled every two years and plummeted in price – until now. What’s Moore’s Law? If you haven’t heard of Moore’s Law, it refers to […]
The idea of backing up your data is as old as computing itself. Remember autosave? That was what you hoped would happen while typing away in Corel WordPerfect just in case you encountered the blue screen of death (BSOD). Back in the late 90s at the peak of dot-com mania, hard drive space was still […]
They say that the most compelling investment themes for your average Joe retail investor are the ones where society encounters some calamity and only a small set of astute investors are smart enough to see it coming and profit from it. For example, you often see apocalyptic prophecies on gold investment websites that play on […]
A startup is the epitome of an innovation engine. Everyone wears many hats, and the only thing constant is change. The bigger a startup gets, the more difficult it becomes to innovate. That’s because as companies grow, processes get put in place to structure things. Soon, a human resources department gets formed, and employees don’t […]
Developing good software is tough. That’s because finding rock-star developers is extremely tough. These are the people who spend their free time coding because they love it so much. They’re good and they know it, they don’t suffer fools easily, and any tools they use better be built to meet their extremely high standards. In […]
Using blockchain technology to create efficiencies in large industries could reap billion-dollar rewards for driven founders. For example, we recently met with a startup called Othera that is using blockchain to transform the residential mortgage industry. They’ve partnered with a co-op that represents over 150 mortgage originators that generate in excess of $230 billion in mortgages per year. The founders are experienced […]
Social media now makes it easy for anyone to make armchair observations about how hiring in STEM ought to take place. “There needs to be more people from group X, Y, or Z represented in the population of tech workers,” you’ll hear them say. Then, they’ll point to some machine learning startup that’s selling a snake oil […]
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