@WindforceVC

We invest in early-stage technology businesses.

 NYC
windforceventures.com
Joined August 2012
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30 Weeks@30WeeksProgram3 May 2016
What do VC's look for? @Twabbi led this session and provided great insight! #startup #funding #pitch #vc #founders
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The state of the internet, current and future. medium.com/@cdixon/the-inter…
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Failure is a necessary evil, especially in investing. avc.com/2016/04/losing-money…
Two out of three developers are self-taught, and other trends from a survey of 56,033 coders qz.com/649409/two-out-of-thr…
Emotional over this @canvstv data. variety.com/2016/digital/new…

TV Shows That Pack Emotional Punch Have Higher Ad Recall: Twitter Study

Television viewers who have an emotional reaction to a show are far more likely to remember the ads they saw on TV, according to a new Twitter-sponsored study.

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Wish we had this in school. techcrunch.com/2016/03/10/vo…

Zuckerberg Education Ventures backs learning assistant camera app Volley | TechCrunch

"This is so fast it feels like cheating" students tell Volley. The education startup's app lets students point their phone's camera at a textbook page or

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20% of all of Slack's daily active users — one in five — started using it since New Year's.
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What’s Next in Computing? medium.com/@cdixon/what-s-ne…
Bots are better. medium.com/art-marketing/a-c…

A Conversation Between Two AIs

The other day, I was introduced to Jason at Clara Labs, a startup whose product is an AI personal assistant to schedule meetings. As it so…

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Awesome opportunity to help @tomwilliams keep @getbetterapp the most positive place on the Internet: angel.co/l/LxKez
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Down the stack. wsj.com/articles/why-bigcomp… via @Instapaper

Why Big Companies Keep Getting Disrupted

Clayton Christensen’s book “The Innovator’s Dilemma” was published nearly 20 years ago, and companies continue to fall prey to nimble competitors. Anshu​ Sharma, a venture capitalist, thinks he knows...

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Well done, @iamjaredf and @canvstv team. Excited for what's to come. mediapost.com/publications/a…

Social Media & Marketing Daily: Social Tech-Oriented Canvs Raises $5.6M To Build Sales, Marketing...

Canvs CEO Jared Feldman says the money will be used to build sales and marketing teams as well as improve their core technology. He wants to bring the sensibilities of programmatic to market research.

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Use of the phrase 'exponential growth' by decade
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Entrepreneurship isn't a lifestyle. It is life. om.co/2013/04/11/the-cycle-o… via @Instapaper

The Cycle of Second Guessing 

It was a lovely spring day in San Francisco, which is why it made sense for me to meet up with Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare to catch up on some sun and talk about the 6.0 version of his…

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Foursquare's location data is way more powerful than people realize techinsider.io/inside-foursq…

Foursquare has an amazing 'superpower' that wants to take over your phone

Foursquare's Pilgrim technology is the thing that separates the company from not just competitors, but every other app in the App Store.

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Aaron Levie
@levie4 Jan 2016
As we move from an industrial to digital economy, non-tech companies may become the biggest acquirers and investors in tech startups.
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In Silicon Valley Now, It’s Almost Always Winner Takes All newyorker.com/tech/elements/…

In Silicon Valley Now, It’s Almost Always Winner Takes All

The failure of Sidecar, a ride-sharing venture backed by Richard Branson, illustrates that today’s tech-business ecosystem isn’t structured to foster multi-company competition.

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The Force Awakened In 2015 Startup Tech blog.semilshah.com/2015/12/2…
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Jason
@jasonwstein29 Dec 2015
UX above everything. 🔑 – at Brooklyn, NY
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How to get rich in tech, guaranteed. startupljackson.com/post/135…
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