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Data-in-a-box companies are going out of style like bell bottom jeans and mood rings. There are easier ways to manage your data. — Have you ever looked at a report in Baremetrics or ChartMogul or SaaSOptics and realized the numbers are way off? Not just slightly off, or maybe a day out of date, or only “correct” if you make that One Special Assumption about netting out certain customers? Back in 2019 when…

What got my attention last week? As anyone with an internet connection knows, the country’s primary pastime of the past week has been writing explanations of LLMs and generative AI (when they weren’t explaining the SBV bank failure and weighing in on its implications). A good deal of the output was not worth the expenditure of…

The price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies kept rising, blowing through key price levels at the end of the week and spurring calls of a new bull market amid a macroeconomic backdrop that could favor blockchain over the traditional financial industry. On March 29, joining hands with the South Korean…

Today’s Wisdoms From Books is ‘Capitalist Mindset’ by Masakazu Mito. The main idea that penetrates the whole book is that individuals have to brand themselves to become independent workers. Under the threat of stagflation in S.Korea, advice from a survivor of The Lost Decades was absolutely considerable. Masakazu begins with…

Brinc startups to quantify their impact via Rho Impact’s tools Rho Impact will provide a workshop on their tools, which can help startups appeal to venture capitalists (VCs) and customers by demonstrating the impact of their technology on fighting climate change Brinc, a global venture accelerator committed to creating a…

This is the 2nd of a series of posts about Boston, Pittsburgh and Toronto, relevant startup hubs for active early stage hardtech investors. My purpose is to share a few impressions for a glimpse of the current state of Robotics, AI & AV Startups in the US & Canada. …