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HackerNoon, the independent technology publishing platform, is pleased to announce the nominees for its annual “Startups of the Year” award, featuring the most promising and innovative companies in the San Diego startup ecosystem. San Diego, CA - May 24, 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqIW54yMsNc&embedable=true The list, compiled by the HackerNoon team, showcases that are making significant contributions to the San Diego economy and driving innovation in their respective industries. 133 startups The nominated for Startups of the Year 2023 include: Startups in San Diego GoFormz Lively Root Platform Science Kahoona Tag-N-Trac Launch Factory comma Zoox Streamlined Robin Healthcare KÉXY ChargeNet Stations Replay RobustPhysics Sensorydata Skillmasters.io Truepic Blueboard 6Storage XRA Lawmatics Brain Doctible Classy.org Helix GoShare Sportidia The Good Face Project Cloudbeds ClickUp You can nominate your company as the . startup of the year in San Diego here “We are thrilled to recognize the top startups in San Diego and celebrate their achievements,” said . “Starting and sustaining a company is difficult. We’re honored to showcase their work and impact.” David Smooke, HackerNoon Founder & CEO is a community-driven voting platform that recognizes startups that are changing technology and the world for the better. Starting May 8th, 2023, the internet can nominate and vote for the best ventures in their city. The voting period will remain open until December 31, 2023, and winners will be announced in January 2024 after a comprehensive evaluation by the HackerNoon team. Startups of the Year 2023 In its , a total of 44,427 startups were nominated in 16 different regions, and the community cast 234,344 votes during a 6-month long campaign in favor of budding companies that were growing and trending across every major city in the world. The received perks from sponsors and a free from HackerNoon. previous iteration 1,382 winners tech company news page As a proponent of the open data movement, HackerNoon releases the unique social data gathered from Startups of the Year on GitHub as “ ” for valuable insights. /where-startups-trend Apart from validation from the world's greenest tech publication, all nominees relevant to their domain, region, and funding. They will also receive an and a free version of their very own on HackerNoon. get free interviews amazing discount package designed for their startup Tech Company News Page These pages include business overviews (such as head count, founding year, bio, social links, and domain ranking) coupled with dynamic updates every time the company is mentioned in HackerNoon stories or relevant headlines around the web. People can , and vote once per day per award for who they think should be Startup of the Year all the way up to December 31st. nominate their favorite startups until June 8th In addition to the award itself, winners receive exclusive interviews, an exclusive NFT from HackerNoon, and a .Tech Domain for life. For more information about the “Startups of the Year 2023” list and the nominated companies, please visit our . FAQ page About HackerNoon HackerNoon is a technology publication that aims to empower developers, entrepreneurs, and tech enthusiasts to share their knowledge and expertise with a global audience. With millions of monthly readers, over 500,000 followers on social media, and over 250,000 newsletter subscribers, HackerNoon provides a platform for startups and innovators to showcase their work and connect with a vibrant community of like-minded individuals. Did you know that companies that actively engage in blogging experience a whopping 67% increase in leads? Take advantage of HackerNoon's ' ' to kickstart your own company's blogging journey. Startups Package Startups Of The Year 2023 is sponsored by . .Tech Domains You can nominate your company as the . startup of the year in San Diego here

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If you’re completely new to investing but you’re interested in cryptocurrencies, is book you NEED to read. Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond the But let’s not fool ourselves.,, Chances are you’d rather be entertained by internet memes and cat gifs than read a and get schooled —at least that’s what the . book studies point to So, having your best interests at heart… I’ve gone and read the book for you extracted 10 of the best key takeaways to help you with your cryptocurrency investing goals of 2018. The book has been split into 3 sections of WHAT, WHY, and HOW for cryptoasset investing and it is geared slightly towards old-school financial investors (i.e. people who buy stocks and bonds). HOWEVER it still has a TREASURE TROVE of valuable insights, especially for the people I call “pure crypto investors” aka people who don’t own any stocks, bonds, or other traditional financial assets at all.. The 10 key takeaways to follow are the most valuable insights I came across for “pure” crypto investors seeking their share of the glorious bounties that the Wild Wild West of Cryptoland has to offer. This article is not intended for someone who is totally new to cryptocurrencies and assets, if that is you, do yourself a favor and pick up the book instead by so you can get the whole picture. clicking here Without further ado, the 10 key takeaways are.. 1. “Fear and greed remain uniquely human traits that can and will find a place in cryptoassets.” As Benjamin Graham touts in his masterpiece , you want to focus on the inherent value of an investment without getting caught up in the irrational behavior (i.e. emotional behavior) of the markets. The Intelligent Investor (If you don’t know who Benjamin Graham is, he was Warren Buffet’s mentor.) Managing your emotions is easier said than done but remaining level-headed, rational, and calm during times of chaos will enable you to prevail victoriously when everyone else is losing their shit. I highly recommend picking up meditation if you haven’t gotten on the bandwagon yet. Once you are better able to manage your own emotions and feelings, you can then advance to the next level, which is to analyze other market participant’s emotions and feelings and what this may indicate for the market and your investments. 2. This isn’t just some ponzi scheme, distributed ledger technology aka blockchain is here to stay and will likely power the future. “It’s your boy, Carlos Matos!” I feel fore the people who haven’t fallen down the rabbit hole of crypto, bitcoin, and how all of this ‘magical’ stuff works. blockchain These people are truly missing out on the good life. And by good life I’m talking about the life where you forget about everything in your life pre-crypto because you now spend all day, everyday, grinding and hustling it out on all things crypto related. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of getting sucked down this rabbit hole, what you must realize is that… Emerging technologies always encounter heavy scrutiny and skepticism because people are naturally resistant towards change and tend to be scared of the unfamiliar. On the other hand, early adopters who express undying faith are the ones that enable these emerging technologies and innovations to see the light of day and who kick start the snowball effect that accelerates the emerging technology towards mainstream adoption. - Blythe Masters, Presentation to Wall Street Bankers at the 2015 Sandler O’Neill & Partners investor conference “You should be taking this technology [blockchain] as seriously as you should have been taking the development of the Internet in the early 1990s. It’s analogous to email for money.” 3. Stop calling everything cryptocurrencies! Cryptoassets is a better term because there are in essence 3 broad asset types in crypto: Cryptocurrencies (cryptos used as a currency or means of payment) 2. Cryptocommodities (cryptos that offers provision of a commodity such as data, storage capacity, or computing power) 3. Cryptotokens (or utility tokens that provide access to finished goods and services on blockchains — these are essentially tokens that allow you to access and use decentralized applications) 4. Do not forget about the developers and miners! They are vital to the long-term and survival of any cryptoasset you invest in! Developers and miners are the wizards who tinker away in the background to allow everything to function smoothly. If you’re in this space, it’s a good idea to understand and get to know the other players in this space, developers and miners are no exception to this rule, I’d even go so far as to argue they’re likely one of the most important players to pay attention to. In cryptoland, developers are the ones who quickly iterate, fix bugs, and improve crypto networks and platforms, whereas miners provide the hardware and resources necessary to secure a crypto network and keep the blockchain up and running. [NB: It would be prudent to consider the total amount of computing hash power available in the world and whether this amount would be enough to support all the blockchain projects that are coming out with each passing day.] From the note to myself from above, my guess is that: Miners will either make an absolute killing in the future by setting up mining rigs in empty warehouses China style; A lot of these blockchain projects are doomed to die and fail (No sh*t Sherlock!) (1) there simply aren’t that many skilled blockchain developers in the world at the moment and (2) there might not be enough hardware, miners, or resources to support the different blockchains coming out; OR BECAUSE A new consensus system may come to fruition that either halts, puts an end to, or slows the adoption of Proof of Work blockchains making miners redundant. I believe all 3 of the above scenarios are likely to occur… It’s more a matter of to what degree each scenario is likely to unfold. Bitcoin Mining Rig Warehouse 5. Modern Portfolio Theory and the Sharpe Ratio explains why you scan remain bullish on crypto markets for the long-term Institutional and traditional investors eventually WANT to get in on cryptoassets. will With almost near-zero correlations between crypto markets - or in this case bitcoin - and traditional financial markets, adding bitcoin to an investment portfolio will not only reduce the overall risk of the portfolio but could also potentially increase returns too. What this means for traditional investors is that it would be a SMART move to add crypto assets into their portfolios because this would reduce the OVERALL risk of the portfolio while still maintaining or allowing for an increase in overall returns. The wizardry behind why this is the case even despite bitcoin’s volatility is explained by the (MPT) — you’ll need to read the book or hit up Google to figure this one out as I ain’t got the time or space to cover it here. Modern Portfolio Theory 6. Dollar cost average into your entries and exits of the market. If you bought $100 worth of bitcoin in November 2013 when it just hit its all time high back then, that same $100 would be worth only $83 in January 2017! If you had instead chosen to “dollar cost average” into your position, you would have experienced a much better return (or at least less of a loss). If you have no idea what dollar cost averaging is, it’s essentially buying into or selling out of your cryptoasset over a couple days or even weeks. This means you buy or sell the crypto at different price points instead of putting EVERYTHING IN at one single price. For example if you have $1,000 to invest, you can break down that $1000 into four lots of $250 and purchase bitcoin or any other crypto over a 4 week period so you “dollar cost average” in. This is a good way to mitigate risk and also helps to minimize regrets in the case you buy the cryptoasset at its all-time high only to see it plummet every day and week following that. 7. What regulations could mean for crypto and ICOs in particular.. With governments making progress on regulating crypto with even it would be prudent to consider how these factors will affect the overall crypto market, in this particular case lets considering ICOs as an example. regulation compliant exchanges coming to market Ben Evans, an analyst at Andreessen Horowitz, published a report in 2015 about Initial Public Offerings (IPO) showing how investment value had over time shifted more towards private investors. In 1999 the median time taken for a tech company to undergo an IPO was 4 years and the time taken stretched out to 11 years by 2014. What this meant was that retail investors — people like you and me — had to wait almost 3 times longer to get the opportunity to buy and invest in these tech companies. This also meant the private market and investors had a greater amount of time to put more capital into these companies and build up a larger portfolio in them. This delay in IPO time resulted from increased regulations as well as the financial crisis in 2008. As a result of more regulations, this resulted in more stable IPOs and reduced the risk investors faced when investing into these IPOs however with less risk comes less rewards. The majority of returns in new tech companies now are taken up by private investors, since Microsoft’s IPO in 1986 private money has grown 20,000% whereas public money experienced gains of 60,000%. Facebook’s IPO in 2012 however saw private money grow 80,000% with public money growing just shy of 1,000%. So how about we connect the dots… IPOs are when a private company sells their shares to the open public and coincides with getting listed on a stock exchange so that anyone can buy, sell, and exchange the company’s shares. Spotify is a tech company that will soon be undergoing an IPO. When it comes to ICOs, they share some similarities to an IPO. For instance when a cryptoasset is unlocked and made tradable or when the coin is listed on a major exchange allowing everyone to now buy and sell the cryptoasset/token. ICOs aren’t exactly the same as IPOs but a lot of people have used it as a point of comparison so I’ma just roll with it for now. One of the major key takeaways from Evan’s report as illustrated above was the fact that since 1999 due to increased government regulation and intervention this caused an increase in the time tech companies took to undergo an IPO from 4 to 11 years. We have already seen and will continue to see this same phenomenon occur in the ICO market. ICO Procedures From the very beginning, ICOs did not require any KYC/AML information at all to be collected, but now this is general best practices and has resulted in a lengthier process when it comes to undertaking ICOs. Returns are Shifting More toward Private Investors More recently however, more and more value looks to be shifting towards the private investor markets for ICOs and away from the public. Several ICOs ( Gems Refereum) have chosen to cancel and forego their public crowd sales because they managed to fill their hard caps through private presales. *cough* *cough* Not only are presale investors taking up the majority of allocations, on top of this they’re also given discounts and bonuses so they essentially buy cryptoassets at a lower rate compared to the public crowdsale rate. Incoming Regulations With regulations coming into effect, you can expect the ICO process to take more time to undergo then it does now as more and more stringent information and procedures will need to be adhered to. What this means is investors will face far less risks in participating in ICOs, however returns are also likely to be lower as a result, especially if returns continue to shift towards the private investor market. 8. There are two primary drivers behind the value of crypto assets: utility and speculative value. Speculative value is driven by people predicting how widely adopted a particular crypto asset may be in the future. The belief here is that the more widely used and adopted the cryptoasset is, the higher the price will be because of increased demand. Generally as a crypto asset matures over time, less and less of it’s value will derive from speculative value because it’s utility value will catch up overtime and begin to “replace” value accrued to the cryptoasset which had once been speculative. total For example, we could say speculative value of a cryptoasset comes from people believing the team will be able to execute and get their main net up, live and running at a certain date. This “speculative value” would then be priced into the cryptoasset by those who believe this is the case and that also a live main net will produce even more value in the future for the cryptoasset. When the main net goes live however, there will no longer be any further speculative value in the price due to anticipating the main net will be live and running by that date as the team has now executed and gotten the job done. The main net now provides utility value for those who access and utilize it. With that being said however, it is possible for investors to speculate even further now that the main net is live with regards to future opportunities, partnerships or planned milestones the team can continue to execute on. Once investors believe little speculative value is left in a cryptoasset this would mean the price is now primarily reflected by the utility value of the cryptoasset and has thus reached its “maximum” value for an investor. At this point most investors would sell out of their positions because little to no speculative value is left and thus there is little potential for further price appreciation. 9. Volatility in the cryptomarket is cray cray Anyone who’s been around the block in crypto is familiar with just how volatile the markets can be. For the uninitiated however, the volatility of the markets can be alarming to say the least. The volatility and drop in price of Bitcoin from several of its majors peaks and troughs has averaged out to a 63% decline from its peak prices, with the highest depreciation in price at 85% and 93%. After Bitcoin reached an all time high of $19,500 USD in December 2017, it dropped 69% to a low of $6000 USD in February 2018. When a steep drop in price occurs, it generally happens after prices have risen parabolic ally and is followed shortly by a slow steady drawn out decline in price. In the tulip mania bubble of the 1600’s, the common people, the people with the least experience in investing that got swept up in the madness of the crowd were the people who got rekt the hardest. Therefore unless you are willing to hodl on for dear life despite how volatile things get in the market, it might be smarter to sit out this market until you gather up some bigger kahoonas or wait until the markets are much less volatile — at that point however rewards are likely to be much lower. 10. Fundamental Analysis boils down to: Whitepaper Decentralization edge of a cryptoasset Valuation of the crypto network Community and developer support Relation to crypto siblings (e.g. did they fork, is it an ERC20, new blockchain, who are competitors?) Issuance model (how the token or coins are minted, total circulating supply, inflationary or deflationary etc.) I won’t dive into each of these points as they would require a separate article themselves and this is already long enough as it is! What I do suggest however if you are curious and interested to figure out how to better perform proper fundamental analysis is to pick up the book by and by Chris Burniske Jack Tatar clicking here! Hope you enjoyed the read — if you did, please make sure to smash down that clap button (+50) to shower me with your love and appreciation. (I’ve heard that people who do this tend to see their next crypto investment moon 60% of the time, every time ;)

10 Key Takeaways from CryptoAssets: The Innovative Investor’s Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond…

Free as in Freedom, by Sam Williams, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here . A BRIEF JOURNEY THROUGH HACKER HELL The lead image of this article was generated via HackerNoon's AI Stable Diffusion model using the prompt 'a fiery hell filled with computers'. A BRIEF JOURNEY THROUGH HACKER HELL Richard Stallman stares, unblinking, through the windshield of a rental car, waiting for the light to change as we make our way through downtown Kihei. The two of us are headed to the nearby town of Pa'ia, where we are scheduled to meet up with some software programmers and their wives for dinner in about an hour or so. It's about two hours after Stallman's speech at the Maui High Performance Center, and Kihei, a town that seemed so inviting before the speech, now seems profoundly uncooperative. Like most beach cities, Kihei is a one-dimensional exercise in suburban sprawl. Driving down its main drag, with its endless succession of burger stands, realty agencies, and bikini shops, it's hard not to feel like a steel-coated morsel passing through the alimentary canal of a giant commercial tapeworm. The feeling is exacerbated by the lack of side roads. With nowhere to go but forward, traffic moves in spring-like lurches. 200 yards ahead, a light turns green. By the time we are moving, the light is yellow again. For Stallman, a lifetime resident of the east coast, the prospect of spending the better part of a sunny Hawaiian afternoon trapped in slow traffic is enough to trigger an embolism. Even worse is the knowledge that, with just a few quick right turns a quarter mile back, this whole situation easily could have been avoided. Unfortunately, we are at the mercy of the driver ahead of us, a programmer from the lab who knows the way and who has decided to take us to Pa'ia via the scenic route instead of via the nearby Pilani Highway. "This is terrible," says Stallman between frustrated sighs. "Why didn't we take the other route?" Again, the light a quarter mile ahead of us turns green. Again, we creep forward a few more car lengths. This process continues for another 10 minutes, until we finally reach a major crossroad promising access to the adjacent highway. The driver ahead of us ignores it and continues through the intersection. "Why isn't he turning?" moans Stallman, throwing up his hands in frustration. "Can you believe this?" I decide not to answer either. I find the fact that I am sitting in a car with Stallman in the driver seat, in Maui no less, unbelievable enough. Until two hours ago, I didn't even know Stallman knew how to drive. Now, listening to Yo-Yo Ma's cello playing the mournful bass notes of "Appalachian Journey" on the car stereo and watching the sunset pass by on our left, I do my best to fade into the upholstery. When the next opportunity to turn finally comes up, Stallman hits his right turn signal in an attempt to cue the driver ahead of us. No such luck. Once again, we creep slowly through the intersection, coming to a stop a good 200 yards before the next light. By now, Stallman is livid. "It's like he's deliberately ignoring us," he says, gesturing and pantomiming like an air craft carrier landing-signals officer in a futile attempt to catch our guide's eye. The guide appears unfazed, and for the next five minutes all we see is a small portion of his head in the rearview mirror. I look out Stallman's window. Nearby Kahoolawe and Lanai Islands provide an ideal frame for the setting sun. It's a breathtaking view, the kind that makes moments like this a bit more bearable if you're a Hawaiian native, I suppose. I try to direct Stallman's attention to it, but Stallman, by now obsessed by the inattentiveness of the driver ahead of us, blows me off. When the driver passes through another green light, completely ignoring a "Pilani Highway Next Right," I grit my teeth. I remember an early warning relayed to me by BSD programmer Keith Bostic. "Stallman does not suffer fools gladly," Bostic warned me. "If somebody says or does something stupid, he'll look them in the eye and say, `That's stupid.'" Looking at the oblivious driver ahead of us, I realize that it's the stupidity, not the inconvenience, that's killing Stallman right now. "It's as if he picked this route with absolutely no thought on how to get there efficiently," Stallman says. The word "efficiently" hangs in the air like a bad odor. Few things irritate the hacker mind more than inefficiency. It was the inefficiency of checking the Xerox laser printer two or three times a day that triggered Stallman's initial inquiry into the printer source code. It was the inefficiency of rewriting software tools hijacked by commercial software vendors that led Stallman to battle Symbolics and to launch the GNU Project. If, as Jean Paul Sartre once opined, hell is other people, hacker hell is duplicating other people's stupid mistakes, and it's no exaggeration to say that Stallman's entire life has been an attempt to save mankind from these fiery depths. This hell metaphor becomes all the more apparent as we take in the slowly passing scenery. With its multitude of shops, parking lots, and poorly timed street lights, Kihei seems less like a city and more like a poorly designed software program writ large. Instead of rerouting traffic and distributing vehicles through side streets and expressways, city planners have elected to run everything through a single main drag. From a hacker perspective, sitting in a car amidst all this mess is like listening to a CD rendition of nails on a chalkboard at full volume. "Imperfect systems infuriate hackers," observes Steven Levy, another warning I should have listened to before climbing into the car with Stallman. "This is one reason why hackers generally hate driving cars-the system of randomly programmed red lights and oddly laid out one-way streets causes delays which are so goddamn unnecessary [Levy's emphasis] that the impulse is to rearrange signs, open up traffic-light control boxes . . . redesign the entire system."See Steven Levy, Hackers (Penguin USA [paperback], 1984): 40. More frustrating, however, is the duplicity of our trusted guide. Instead of searching out a clever shortcut-as any true hacker would do on instinct-the driver ahead of us has instead chosen to play along with the city planners' game. Like Virgil in Dante's Inferno, our guide is determined to give us the full guided tour of this hacker hell whether we want it or not. Before I can make this observation to Stallman, the driver finally hits his right turn signal. Stallman's hunched shoulders relax slightly, and for a moment the air of tension within the car dissipates. The tension comes back, however, as the driver in front of us slows down. "Construction Ahead" signs line both sides of the street, and even though the Pilani Highway lies less than a quarter mile off in the distance, the two-lane road between us and the highway is blocked by a dormant bulldozer and two large mounds of dirt. It takes Stallman a few seconds to register what's going on as our guide begins executing a clumsy five-point U-turn in front of us. When he catches a glimpse of the bulldozer and the "No Through Access" signs just beyond, Stallman finally boils over. "Why, why, why?" he whines, throwing his head back. "You should have known the road was blocked. You should have known this way wouldn't work. You did this deliberately." The driver finishes the turn and passes us on the way back toward the main drag. As he does so, he shakes his head and gives us an apologetic shrug. Coupled with a toothy grin, the driver's gesture reveals a touch of mainlander frustration but is tempered with a protective dose of islander fatalism. Coming through the sealed windows of our rental car, it spells out a succinct message: "Hey, it's Maui; what are you gonna do?" Stallman can take it no longer. "Don't you fucking smile!" he shouts, fogging up the glass as he does so. "It's your fucking fault. This all could have been so much easier if we had just done it my way." Stallman accents the words "my way" by gripping the steering wheel and pulling himself towards it twice. The image of Stallman's lurching frame is like that of a child throwing a temper tantrum in a car seat, an image further underlined by the tone of Stallman's voice. Halfway between anger and anguish, Stallman seems to be on the verge of tears. Fortunately, the tears do not arrive. Like a summer cloudburst, the tantrum ends almost as soon as it begins. After a few whiny gasps, Stallman shifts the car into reverse and begins executing his own U-turn. By the time we are back on the main drag, his face is as impassive as it was when we left the hotel 30 minutes earlier. It takes less than five minutes to reach the next cross-street. This one offers easy highway access, and within seconds, we are soon speeding off toward Pa'ia at a relaxing rate of speed. The sun that once loomed bright and yellow over Stallman's left shoulder is now burning a cool orange-red in our rearview mirror. It lends its color to the gauntlet wili wili trees flying past us on both sides of the highway. For the next 20 minutes, the only sound in our vehicle, aside from the ambient hum of the car's engine and tires, is the sound of a cello and a violin trio playing the mournful strains of an Appalachian folk tune. Endnote About HackerNoon Book Series: We bring you the most important technical, scientific, and insightful public domain books. This book is part of the public domain. Sam Williams (2004). Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Retrieved October 2022, from https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5768/pg5768.html This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org , located at https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html.

A Brief Journey Through Hacker Hell

Un breve viaje por el infierno de los hackers

Un bref voyage à travers l'enfer des hackers

हैकर नर्क के माध्यम से एक संक्षिप्त यात्रा

ハッカー地獄の短い旅

Uma breve jornada pelo inferno dos hackers

Hành trình ngắn qua Hacker Hell

黑客地狱之旅

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