Juan Orbea
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Juan Orbea
- Fund Size: amount of capital committed to fund.
- Management Fee and Carry Percentages: Typically funds have a 2% yearly management fee over the 10-year life of the fund to cover all overhead expenses and a 20% carry.
Kauffman Fellows • Venture Fund Portfolio Construction | Journal | Kauffman Fellows
Simultaneously, we are facing a technological revolution the consequences of which we are only beginning dimly to grasp, let alone understand. The evidence seems to be growing that this revolution – which is more accurately a revolution in how information is generated, collected, processed, analyzed, shared, consumed, and understood – may be... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
However, growth in magnetic memory is not primarily a matter of Moore’s law, but includes advances in mechanical and electromagnetic systems. The following two charts show the overall growth of the Internet based on the number of hosts. These two charts plot the same data, but one is on an exponential axis and the other is linear. So from the... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Why Intelligence is More Powerful than Physics
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Human Behavior and
In short, VCs in these frontier domains essentially need multiple miracles for these companies to succeed. Compare those scale up challenges to traditional biotech and pharma, where the entire industry has designed systems and processes to prove safety and efficacy and grow production. There’s still serious technical risk, but it’s knowable... See more
Danny Crichton • Lux Capital Page Not Found
A more controversial application than this scanning-the-brain-to-understand-it scenario is scanning-the-brain-to-download-it. When an entire network of neurons receives input (from the outside world or from other networks of neurons), the signaling amongst them appears at first to be frenzied and random. So the question addressed by the San Diego... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
This means if you can increase the positive impact of those hours just a little, it will probably have a bigger impact than changes to any other parts of your life.