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The Big Argument Today on which much depends: techno-optimism vs. decelerationism

To Build, or Not to Build, That is the Question: Techno-Optimism vs. Decelerationism

“He’s not great at the basics of daily life: directions confound him, because roadways aren’t logical, and he’s so absent-minded about sunglasses that he keeps a “reload station” with nine pairs on his hall table,” wrote Tad Friend in a profile for the <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/18/tomorrows-advance-man">New Yorker magazine</a>.

Is Software Eating The Useless Class?

<a href="https://a16z.com/2018/12/29/talent-tech-trends-culture-ben-marc-tyler-cowen-summit-2018/" target="_blank">This podcast</a>, in which Tyler Cowen interviews Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, contains a number of interesting observations. In what follows, I recapitulate some of the observations and add my own comments.

Cowen, Andreessen, and Horowitz: Annotated

About a year and a half ago, we began brainstorming how we could scale our value-add services to reach our portfolio companies across the globe. Offering business development, talent, community, and a handful of other perks, to 135+ portfolio companies across various timezones, stages, and sectors can be a bit challenging.

Why We Launched OurCrowd Connect

Revenue is up, expenses are down, our blogging network is growing, and audience metrics are thriving. Read all about it here!

State of the Noonion 2025: Scaling Business Blogging and The Technology Publishing Network

Hundreds of Google and Amazon employees anonymously sign a letter opposing the tech giants’ deal with Israel.

Hundreds of Google and Amazon Employees Oppose the Israeli "Nimbus" Cloud Project

The fundamental meaning of the logo is to create an expanding business universe. Understanding this is half the success.

How to Make Logo Work for Your Business?

These are 7 crucial key points to improve the UX design of your digital product. To improve UX, you need to know what the “weak spots” of the interface are.

7 Key Points To Improve UX Design

Are you aware of all the opportunities that illustrations give?

Illustrations in Web Design: 11 Examples For Your Inspiration

The success of your website or app strongly depends on the cooperation between the designers and the developers. It’s not about the professional skills of either group. You get a competent designer to make you a beautiful layout which you then pass on to an equally professional and experienced developer. Suddenly it turns out it can’t be realized without major changes!

Working Together: How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate While Building Products

Israel’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup ecosystem has raised over $7.5 billion cumulatively and is undergoing explosive growth, characterized by a major influx of establishments and talent, forming what could be considered the global leader of AI over the next five years. Notwithstanding their absent national agenda and budget, Israel has already earmarked the largest AI exit to date (Mobileye — 15.3B) and boasts a substantial and growing cluster of startups utilizing and developing AI technologies.

Israel’s Artificial Intelligence Landscape 2018

While crypto markets continue to flounder in terms of currency value, more and more traditional investment institutions like JP Morgan are adopting blockchain to solve some of their challenges.

Are Traditional Institutions Finally Accepting Cryptos?

The way venture firms onboard portfolio companies varies firm to firm, partner to partner. Some have a formal process, other’s don’t. Yesterday, we formally onboarded another company to OurCrowd’s family of startups. Throughout the past year, we’ve experimented with a few different onboarding models and have learned a lot.

Tips For Onboarding Portfolio Companies

It is not a secret that we live in an era of abundance, and money is certainly abundant out there. What sometimes is missed is a way to channel them toward specific objectives and activities.

Alternative Mechanisms of Fundraising

A few months ago, I met with executives from Walmart, as part of a delegation visiting Israel, meeting with the brightest minds in the country. Participating in these meetings opened my eyes to the extraordinary world of logistics — a trillion dollar industry that connects the world, responsible for shipping some $19 trillion dollars worth of goods annually. Walmart, Amazon, Target, Gap and every retail business has to tackle hundreds of potential supply chain nightmares to deliver their products from the factory to their consumers’ doorsteps. While the level of innovation taking place today in the industry is unprecedented, startups continue to reinvent the status quo to solve pain points leveraging everything from robotics to drones to big data analytics.

Logistics Tech Market Map — October 2017

The artificial intelligence industry is expected to be worth <a href="https://www.tractica.com/newsroom/press-releases/artificial-intelligence-software-revenue-to-reach-59-8-billion-worldwide-by-2025/" target="_blank">$59.8 billion by 2025</a>, and the term AI has become ubiquitous worldwide; the frenzy of many tech enthusiasts, or the topic of discussion at a dinner table. But the hype actually lives up to its name. AI startups are flush with VC cash and even key corporate leaders are actively utilizing the technology to add value and gain a competitive edge.

Israel’s Artificial Intelligence Startups

I’m excited to launch my personal Pitch Assist Office Hours for *<strong>pre-seed and</strong> <strong>seed stage startups*</strong>. I’m a big believer in learning on the go and creating my own education. As a member of the startup &amp; VC ecosystem, it’s crucial to constantly challenge yourself to learn, grow, and connect with founders making the world a better place. As I strive to grow within VC, I’m looking to pay forward what I’ve learned and pitch in (pun intended).

Pitch Assist Office Hours

Unsupervised Investments (I): A Guide to AI Investors

As I wind down <a href="https://medium.com/art-marketing/my-engagement-with-rackspace-is-coming-to-a-close-d86c61f05d97#.m6vwomezj" target="_blank">my engagement with Rackspace</a>, and the incredible experience I have had in serving as the <a href="http://www.alanweinkrantz.com" target="_blank">Brand Ambassador to Israel</a>, I’ve been thinking back on what I have learned from having the opportunity to meet with, speak to groups, mentor, and more than anything — listen to the stories, hopes and dreams of close to 1,000 startups.

Celebrating Israel’s Other Unicorn Economy…

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To Build, or Not to Build, That is the Question: Techno-Optimism vs. Decelerationism

Is Software Eating The Useless Class?

Cowen, Andreessen, and Horowitz: Annotated

Why We Launched OurCrowd Connect

State of the Noonion 2025: Scaling Business Blogging and The Technology Publishing Network

Hundreds of Google and Amazon Employees Oppose the Israeli "Nimbus" Cloud Project

How to Make Logo Work for Your Business?

7 Key Points To Improve UX Design

Illustrations in Web Design: 11 Examples For Your Inspiration

Working Together: How Designers and Developers Can Collaborate While Building Products

Israel’s Artificial Intelligence Landscape 2018

Are Traditional Institutions Finally Accepting Cryptos?

Tips For Onboarding Portfolio Companies

Alternative Mechanisms of Fundraising

Logistics Tech Market Map — October 2017

Israel’s Artificial Intelligence Startups

Pitch Assist Office Hours

Unsupervised Investments (I): A Guide to AI Investors

Celebrating Israel’s Other Unicorn Economy…

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