Before the rise of crypto investing, venture capital careers seemed to be divided into two buckets: consumer and business-to-business. If the goal of venture capital investing is to pick winners, American consumer investors generally picked wrong. There just hasn’t been another Facebook. The biggest consumer startup of the moment is ByteDance, a Chinese company. While I’ve generally dedicated more time to writing about software investing since that’s where the money and exits have been, I’ve tried

This was the seventh session of the day from our Artemis London 2022 conference, held on September 6th, 2022. The event was Artemis' first insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference held in the City of London and saw more than 240 attendees enjoy a wide-range of sessions and networking opportunities. Themed largely around the catastrophe bond, attendees heard from expert speakers that have been in the sector for years, as well as newcomers with ideas of how to innovate the cat bond and ILS

Cat Moon and Lagniappe Law Lab Executive Director Amanda Brown discuss a legal access points research project headed up by Amanda which illustrates how collaboration and modern data methods can support important strategic A2J goals.

This was the sixth session of the day from our Artemis London 2022 conference, held on September 6th, 2022. The event was Artemis' first insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference held in the City of London and saw more than 240 attendees enjoy a wide-range of sessions and networking opportunities. Themed largely around the catastrophe bond, attendees heard from expert speakers that have been in the sector for years, as well as newcomers with ideas of how to innovate the cat bond and ILS market

12/14/22 6am CT Hour John, Glen and Sarah chat about winter weather storms, Argentina in the World Cup and Mimi, the lost cat, reunited with her family. Omar shares how amazingly loved by God we are and why it's a good idea to meditate on that during this season. Ashley reports on Pope's General audience, feast celebrations for St. Lucy and the new way to power the Vatican Christmas tree this year. Kate talks about making your house a "home" through holiday traditions inside and outside of the

12/14/22 7am CT Hour John, Glen and Sarah chat about winter storms cross America, Argentina in World Cup and a cat reunited with its family after 10 years. Fr. Marcel breaks down a survey that shows where we are spending all our time and how we should make sure to save time for Jesus during the holidays and throughout the year. Dave shares the top reasons people give as excuses why they are not being responsible and why they don't hold up.

This was the fourth session of the day from our Artemis London 2022 conference, held on September 6th, 2022. The event was Artemis' first insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference held in the City of London and saw more than 240 attendees enjoy a wide-range of sessions and networking opportunities. Themed largely around the catastrophe bond, attendees heard from expert speakers that have been in the sector for years, as well as newcomers with ideas of how to innovate the cat bond and ILS market

Lode Resources (ASX: LDR) managing director Ted Leschke and executive chairman Andrew Van Heyst join Small Caps to discuss the company’s exploration success at its Webbs Consol silver project in New South Wales’ New England Fold Belt. To-date, the company has discovered six mineralised lodes at the project, including Main Shaft, Tangoa West, Castlereagh, Mt Galena, Copy Cat and Lucky Lucy North. All-up, Lode owns seven brownfield silver, gold and base metal projects across the New England Fold Belt,

This was the second session of the day from our Artemis London 2022 conference, held on September 6th, 2022. The event was Artemis' first insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference held in the City of London and saw more than 240 attendees enjoy a wide-range of sessions and networking opportunities. Themed largely around the catastrophe bond, attendees heard from expert speakers that have been in the sector for years, as well as newcomers with ideas of how to innovate the cat bond and ILS

This was the third session of the day from our Artemis London 2022 conference, held on September 6th, 2022. The event was Artemis' first insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference held in the City of London and saw more than 240 attendees enjoy a wide-range of sessions and networking opportunities. Themed largely around the catastrophe bond, attendees heard from expert speakers that have been in the sector for years, as well as newcomers with ideas of how to innovate the cat bond and ILS

On today's show: Business improvement associations call on local & provincial governments for financial support to address property crime epidemic. Local apartment tenants left shivering for over a month, with no timeline in sight for heating fix. Vancouver health authority says a shop's cat can't come back The Council of the Federation says no deal has been reached between Health Ministers to secure a meeting between the prime minister and premiers on health care funding and changes to the

This was the first session of the day from our Artemis London 2022 conference, held on September 6th, 2022. The event was Artemis' first insurance-linked securities (ILS) conference held in the City of London and saw more than 240 attendees enjoy a wide-range of sessions and networking opportunities. Themed largely around the catastrophe bond, attendees heard from expert speakers that have been in the sector for years, as well as newcomers with ideas of how to innovate the cat bond and ILS

This is the fifth and final session from our Artemis ILS NYC 2022 conference, held in New York City on April 22nd, 2022. This was the largest insurance-linked securities conference in the world since our last in Feb 2020, prior to the pandemic (now eclipsed by our London event in September though, in terms of attendance). Over 200 attendees assembled in New York to hear industry expert speakers under the theme of "(Re)setting the scene", discussing the future of the insurance-linked securities

Washington Post technology policy reporter Cat Zakrzewski speaks with Bret Arsenault, Corporate Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft, about strategies to succeed in the cloud, guard against cyber intrusions and technological advances that could reshape the digital infrastructure of businesses in the coming decades.

During the COVID-19 lockdown, 1 in 5 households welcomed a new cat or dog. That’s about 23 million American homes with a new family member. You could call it a pet boom. And just like the baby boom of the post-war era or the recent millennial baby boom, it created something of an opportunity for savvy business types. Once adopted, dogs quickly establish themselves as an integral family member. Doing something special without them starts to feel … icky. Especially a little thing called “having a

Christian Mumenthaler, the CEO of Swiss Re believes that the reinsurance market will continue to harden significantly, as so far the price gains made by the industry have been largely eaten up by issues elsewhere that affect the reinsurance balance-sheet. Mumenthaler joined us for a new Artemis Live interview just before the Monte Carlo Rendez-vous 2022. We discussed the current state of the reinsurance market, his expectations for year-end renewals, how his firm Swiss Re is managing global

This week on Dead Cat, Reed Albergotti — the technology editor for the soon-to-be launched media startup founded by Ben Smith and Justin Smith — joined the show to talk about the Biden administration’s executive orders shaping how the U.S. does business with China.Albergotti reported earlier this month that the Biden administration is looking to crack down on American investors cutting checks in China. He wrote for Semafor:Administration officials were particularly alarmed this March by a report in

We discuss Gacy's connections to Democratic party machine as precinct captain, the career of his Ward Boss Robert Martwick, the seeming missteps of fellow Martwick precinct captain, murder trial defense attorney and now judge and midwestern TCOT Sam Amirante.

Welcome to Unmade’s Start the Week podcast.Today’s topics:The media merger lessons of results season;ScoMo’s mysterious Tourism Australia sacking;Is Nine really winning the TV ratings?The Cat’s real estate masterplanToday’s episode features Unmade’s Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis. As always, we’d love to hear what you think at letters@unmade.mediaAudio production on Media Unmade was courtesy of Abe’s Audio, the people to talk to about voiceovers and sound design for corporate videos, digital