Video: VC Fred Wilson talks about his career and General Doriot, father of venture capital

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this post and video today:

Both are about Fred Wilson, NYC-based venture capitalist (of Union Square Ventures), giving the inaugural Georges Doriot lecture at MIT.

General Georges Doriot Lectureship: Fred Wilson

The video is also embedded below.

Fred's blog post about the talk is here:

http://avc.com/2017/04/my-talk-at-mit-last-week/.



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BuffaloGrid, mobile power and internet service for the off-grid world

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this today. Seems somewhat interesting:

BuffaloGrid is a startup that describes itself as a "mobile power and internet service for the off-grid world".

BuffaloGrid - What/

BuffaloGrid - Why/

BuffaloGrid - Customers/

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SiteTruth, interesting startup

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SiteTruth is an early-stage startup with an interesting product, that I got to know about today.

Excerpt from their About page above:

[ Conventional wisdom is that search spam can't be stopped.
Conventional wisdom is wrong.

SiteTruth exists to solve one of the Web's biggest problems - web spam, unidentified, and possibly fake, on-line businesses.

Every on-line commerce web site must display the name and address of the business behind the site. That's the law in much of the developed world. SiteTruth tries to identify that business, then find information about it. That check is used to influence search rankings. That's SiteTruth.

Sites which sell, but have no identifiable business behind them, are down-rated. "Doorway pages", "affiliate sites", and anonymous businesses receive low ratings. Identifiable, verifiable businesses get good ratings. The marginal businesses, the ones that the customer can't find when they need a refund, get low ratings. ]

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Startup sighting of the day: Doorman

By Vasudev Ram


Doorman

Just saw about this startup via them liking a recent tweet of mine:

Doorman

From their Twitter account's bio:

[ @Doorman
The delivery startup that is creating a world where online shoppers never see a missed delivery notice or have packages stolen ever again. Support: @DoormanHelp
San Francisco, CA doorman.co ]

Haven't checked it out yet, and also it may be US-only, since it is related to delivery. Might be worth checking out for those there.

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