Movie is dumb but an LLM powering a toy could be a good business
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London Tech Week Dominated by US Venture Capital and LP Networks
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London Tech Week is more like “my US VC and LP friends come visit London” week 🙂
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Influencer Marketing Strategy for Tech Products Without Paid Ads
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not really. Twitter threadbois don't get that much brand deal volume but have to keep outputting. For eg we have spent 0 on marketing for AutoCodePro but still lots of influencers covered it.
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SVB Rebrands as HSBC Innovation Bank with Chancellor Discussion
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Next up: SVB and HSBC UK CEOs in discussion with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to discuss the rebrand of SVB as HSBC Innovation Bank.
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Product Hunt and Hacker News: Unreliable Signals for Mainstream Success
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The problem is that now I am dependent on producthunt and hackernews for what to build, both terrible signals of what has a chance to go mainstream.
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OpenAI’s Rare Success Among Billion-Dollar Startup Failures
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OpenAI might be the only consumer tech product startup that raised > $100m prior to launch, and actually made it work. A graveyard of others have tried and failed (Magic Leap, Juicero, Quibi, etc)
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U.S. Crypto Regulatory Clarity Push for Startups
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Finally, we will remain heavily invested in the U.S. We continue to be committed to working with U.S. policymakers and regulators to push for more regulatory clarity for crypto startups here.
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Andreessen Horowitz Expands Crypto Operations to United Kingdom
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We’re excited about fostering the growth of crypto and web3 globally, and as always, we’re excited to keep building. https://
a16zcrypto.com/posts/announce
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UK Investment in Crypto and AI Companies Announced
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We’ve invested in a number of UK-based crypto companies – including @ArweaveEco
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Crypto Startup School Spring 2024 London Launches
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Our next Crypto Startup School will be Spring 2024 in London, & we hope to attract great teams from the region to build web3 projects. Our recent CSS in LA included teams from the UK, US, India, Germany, France, Argentina, Ecuador, & Canada. https://
a16zcrypto.com/posts/announce
ment/crypto-startup-school-2023-recap-resources/
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