> Isto É Dinheiro interviews e.Bricks Ventures, Bossa Nova Investimentos, Invest Tech, A5 Capital Partners, Domo Inest, and InovaBra Ventures on their outlook on Brazil.
> Edson Rigonatti at Astella Investimentos: Diário de um VC: a busca pelo escalável, sustentável e admirável.
> Tech analyst Ben Thompson on how the VC model is changing from within Silicon Valley. EXCELLENT READ:
"Much has been written of the difficulty in building 'another Silicon Valley.' To be sure, many countries and regions have tried, seeking to assemble the perfect mix of willing investors, eager entrepreneurs, and ready-made markets that will produce the sort of self-perpetuating ecosystem that will lift the region, country, nay, the world to a new level of prosperity and modernity. The problem is that like most real-life systems Silicon Valley is non-linear: it is impossible to break it down into component parts that can be reproduced, and no one can know for sure what a small change in inputs will mean for the outputs.
Moreover, one of the most important stories of the last several years is how the structure of Silicon Valley itself is changing, particularly when it comes to funding. Instead of traditional venture capital firms investing in startups from PowerPoint to IPO, there are angel investors and seed rounds on one end and traditional public market investors investing in private unicorn rounds on the other, with venture capital firms somewhere in the middle. And no company is more responsible for this radical transformation than Amazon: the company changed the inputs, and the butterfly effect is upending the entire system."
> The Washington Post: Juicero shows what’s wrong with Silicon Valley thinking, “Company executives and investors were so eager to make a profit off of an overhyped new product and its lucrative subscription model that they apparently didn’t bother to see whether it actually made sense.”
> Spotify is apparently strongly considering a direct listing instead of an IPO.
> A quick visual guide to machine learning.