DDI Market Snapshot (June 17, 2020)
US Equities ended in positive zone on strong US Retail Sales +17.7% and Trump consideration of $1 trillion spending. Market seems to like Powell comments that “US economy is nearing end of shutdown and beginning...
Blockchain Reduces Risk and Costs in Trading Commodities
This article is the second in a series on exogenous and endogenous assets tracked on the blockchain. For a definition of these topics, as well as a general discussion about distributed ledger technologies (DLTs),...
Why Is That Entrepreneur Raising So Much More Than Me?
How much to raise is both an art and a science, a topic discussed at length in many other posts. What this article will focus on are the reasons specifically an entrepreneur similar to...
How To Pitch Your Early-Stage Healthcare Startup To A VC? The Three Main Challenges
Tau Ventures is a seed fund and digital health is half of our portfolio; our strong view is in healthcare market size is rarely a major issue. VC funding in a space is arguably...
The Future of Blockchain
It has been almost over a decade since Nakamoto invented the first ever blockchain. At that time, he did not explicitly mention blockchain, but the concept was about peer to peer electronic transactions of...
What Do VCs Look For In Their Own Investors aka LPs?
If an entrepreneur is looking just for money they should probably raise from sources other than VC. What good VCs do is truly help a company -- in the early stages especially with product...
The Rise of Neobanks in India
an overview of the market with the different neo-banking fintech players in India Fintech startups in India raised a whopping $3.7 billion in 2019 alone, and for good reason. India has the highest adoption rate...
A Novel Economic System To Respond To The Novel Coronavirus?
Economics is not governed by laws of nature or the physical universe but rather by rules created by human beings to organise their lives. It is an emergent system not directly constrained by base...
Bitcoin Roadmap to 2025
Ten years until mainstream adoption. In this article I’ll map out exactly how I see Bitcoin price action unfolding for the next several weeks, months, and years, all the way to 2025. I’ll show how current...
Is America on the Brink of Collapse?
The Coronavirus outbreak could be the straw that broke the camels back Lockdown has led to pockets of protests across America. Armed protestors went as far as gathering in Michigan’s state capital demanding an end to...
How To Truly Measure A Venture Capitalist’s Performance?
Wall Street Journal: Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns Trail Venture-Capital Elite TechCrunch: AngelList wants to improve comparing VC fund performance with new metrics and calculator New Yorker: Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? Trying to make sense of these...
Three Simple, Low-Maintenence, Hi-Return Strategies
Invest 15 Minutes to Earn Around 13% Per Year My last article was about how some ETF investment strategies made good money even during the wild and difficult years of 2008 and 2020. They applied either...
What Repo Market Injections Say About the Economy – Follow the Breadcrumbs
How did we get here? One big clue lies in the repo market. We’ve found that people tend to forget (ourselves included) important factors, events, or definitions that are important for understanding what is happening...
Speeding up Digitalization of Tech Banking: Cloud and AI as pandemic winners
The economic effects of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 are pushing the struggle to the main industries of each country, conveying certain national economic crisis into a global one. If there´s no consumer of products and...
Private Equity Investors Need to Keep Up With Data Analytics
If you had a key that could unlock a shortcut to business achievement and professional success, wouldn’t you use it? The obvious answer would be yes, of course -- but today, some private equity...
How is R&D spending affecting Biotech company growth?
Biotech companies are the biggest Research and Development spenders proportional to their revenue numbers. As of 2019, many of the largest pharmaceutical firms spend nearly 20% on R&D. Of the 20 largest R&D spending...
Business Continuity Or Financial Protection
Small businesses have been hit hard while many investors got a punch in the face. Emergency orders and lack of paying customers are forcing many companies to close shop. Meanwhile, the February stock market...
Why Found A Startup During A Crisis? 4 Key Reasons
At Tau Ventures we have the privilege of interacting with dozens of entrepreneurs on a daily basis. Given our focus on seed we end up disproportionately exposed to people considering executing an idea. You...
What is Data Management?
In recent years, everyone talks about Big Data. We are always connected, so it is no mystery that the amount of data that is generated daily is scary. Throughout these years, a large number...
The rising tide that doesn’t lift all boats
Every day there is a major event that will move the markets. Trade wars, currency wars, oil wars, pandemics, depression levels of unemployment, conspiracy theories; you name it Are there any more surprises left? Perhaps. With complete...