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Do Companies Have a Choice to be Sustainable?
There’s a lot to critique about greenwashing and ESG, but, all things considered, do companies have the choice to not be sustainable? In this article, we look at the 7 reasons companies can't opt-out of sustainability.
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AltioTake (August 2021)
In August, we saw the cloud infrastructure grow for the 4th consecutive year, the Chinese Government crackdown on tech companies, Google announce a 7500 mile undersea cable, and Electronic Arts open up usage of their accessibility patents.
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AltioTake (July 2021)
July 2021 saw London break VC investment records, Tribe project emerging technologies in fintech, Netflix announce gaming, and right-to-repair regulations announced.
Read MoreAltioTake (28 June - 2 July)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Visa-Tink deal; Virgin Galactica; "Etsy of Brazil"
Read MoreAltioTake (21-25 June)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: VR Advertising; Tesla Supercharger Silk Road; Beyond Podcasts with WaitWhat
Read MoreAltioTake (14-18 June)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Facebook smartwatch; EU-US Tech Council; Flying Car Racing
Read MoreAltioTake (7-11 June)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Fleeting Ads, Supersonic Aircraft, Bosch's Semiconductor Factory
Read MoreWho Would Win? Sustainability Edition
Can you guess which company has the higher ESG score? We bet you can't.
Read MoreAltioTake (1-4 June)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Snap Buys WaveOptics; Belvo's Funding Round
Read MoreAltioTake (24-28 May)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: LaMDA, Interior Sensing M&A, Big Oil Losses
Read MoreAltioTake (17-21 May)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Google Cloud + SpaceX; Vulnerable Pipeline; Internet Explorer Retirement
Read MoreAltioTake (10-14 May)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Apple invests in Laser Tech; CareTech; Renewable Energy Growth
Read MoreAltioTake (3-7 May)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Carbon Farming; Verizon Spring Cleaning; Darktrace IPO
Read MoreAltioTake (26-30 April)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Chips in Space; Toyota AVs; Apple Privacy
Read MoreAltioTake (19-23 April)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: FLoC; Apple vs Tile; Founders Factory Africa
Read MoreAltioTake (12-16 April)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Possible Impossible Meat; Microsoft-Nuance; Nvidia's Grace
Read MoreAltioTake (05-09 April)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Verizon's 3G Sunset; Saying Goodbye to LG Phones; Green Hydrogen
Read MoreAltioTake (29 March - 2 April)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Zoom fatigue; 5G power harvesting; Boston Dynamics
Read MoreAltioTake (22-26 March)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: LTA Airships; Microsoft-Discord; Astroscale launch
Read MoreAltioTake (15-19 March)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Drone delivery; Volvo's AV; Kudu
Read MoreAltioTake (8-12 March)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Paramount+; PayPal acquires Curv; Wefarm funding
Read MoreAltioTake (1-5 March)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Relativity 3D-printed rockets; Klarna funding; Microsoft Mesh
Read MoreDigital Killed the Video Star: The Outlook on Digital Advertising
In this article, we go over the nuts and bolts of digital advertising, dissect the digital boom of 2020 and the rise of SVoD and e-Commerce, analyse the Google-Facebook ad tech duopoly, and look forward into the future of digital advertising in a post-COVID and cookieless world. In short, digital advertising is on the precipice of dramatic change and expansion, and the industry is nowhere near maturity.
Read MoreAltioTake (22-26 Feb.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Torii's SAM; Spotify Hi-Fi; Maze Testing.
Read MoreAltioTake (15-19 Feb.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: eVOTL take-off; SPAC mania; Singapore agtech
Read MoreAltioTake (8-12 Feb.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Flink consumer investing; Twitter subscriptions; Zero UI
Read MoreAltioTake (1-5 Feb.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: Physna's 3D search; FCA BNPL Regulation; Deep Space Food Challenge
Read MoreAltioTake (25-29 Jan.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Loon-er Landing; Birdwatching BlackBerry and Baidu's Auto Partnership
Read MoreXi's Great Wall: Public-Private Sector Relations in China
In this article, we take a deep dive into the relations between China and its private sector. In dissecting the Chinese Dream and Xi Jinping’s agenda, we argue that both public-private relations and investment in China are actually predictable, if you know how to look at the big picture from a contextualised approach.
Read MoreAltioTake (18-22 Jan.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week we cover: e-scooter boom; Moley's robo-chef; Indian startup bonanza
Read MoreAltioTake (11-15 Jan.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: iCar; Big Tech bans Trump; LG Rollable
Read MoreAltioTake (4-8 Jan.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Alphabet Workers Union; digitised auto sales; regulation of fintechs vs banks.
Read MoreAltioTake (22-23 December): EU Digital Act Proposals Edition
This week, Altio reviews the European Commission's Digital Acts, proposed on 15 December 2020. With inforgraphics about both the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), Altio summarises and analyses the implications of these proposed acts.
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Curse of the Lemmings - Why Investors Shouldn’t Just ‘Follow the Crowd’
In this article, we look at contrarian investing and how to overcome herd mentality when investing. The availability of tracker funds or ETF marketed at low cost by brokers have made it increasingly easy and simple to follow the crowd. But is it still paying off to go the extra mile and beyond the majority sentiment?
Read MoreAltioTake (14-17 Dec.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: IPO bubble; Uber expands to groceries; tax compliancy without borders; Flow's at-home depression treatment.
Read MoreAltioTake (7-11 Dec.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: 2020 VR/AR developments; EV Cadillac Ultimatum; Cisco acquires Slido and IMImobile; Wind Energy Investment Boom
Read MoreAltioTake (19-26 Nov.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: COVID-19 vaccines; SpaceX launch; Cashless Payment; Microsoft Teams; EdTech
Read MoreIs Value Investing Losing Value?
In this article, we go over the basics of traditional value investing, critique assumptions about value in light of disruption, and offer a holistic new solution to appropriately apply the tenets of value investing to the dynamic tech sector.
Read MoreAltioTake (12-18 Nov.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Moolec Molecular Farming; London Hub of Impact Tech; Klain's appointment as Chief of Staff; Africa-Based Tech Investment; Electric Ford
Read MoreHow to get rich with tech (but not die trying)
So you want to join the 21st century by investing in technology, but you don’t know where to begin? The last few decades centred on real estate, and many of us, or our parents, have benefitted from this by buying a first home, maybe even a second one. But how do we translate this success into investing in technology? Can we employ real estate investment strategies to that of tech? At Altio, we think so. Instead of buying a home, it is time to buy property in technology . . .
Read MoreAltioTake (26-30 Oct.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Emerging tech ecosystems; electric vehicles; NimbleFin startup rankings; real-estate disruption; freelance working
Read MoreAltioTake (17-19 Oct.)
Each week, we review the press, highlighting and responding to interesting and relevant articles in the news. This week, we cover: Apple's ARM chip; Google's Journalist Studio; China regulates tech; Alibaba acquires Sun Art Retail; Renault wants to be Ferrari
Read MoreHow to invest as a small VC or business angel
The Venture Capital (VC) firm Accel has shown the world how to monetise 7.5bn USD worth of tech firms in 3 months following the successful IPOs of Slack, Crowdstrike and PagerDuty. Andreessen Horowitz (Slack, PagerDuty, Pintrest, Lyft) and Bessemer (PagerDuty, Pinterest) have also done similarly well in this stream of tech IPOs. More and more funds are following the Series B through to IPO route . . .
Read MoreAre we obsessed by growth through the networking effect?
Raising cash to pursue the networking effect — growth at a rate that allows you to dominate your space — is one of the core investment thesis behind technology. But balancing goals is also important and a single-minded focus on this should not blind us from another core priority: excellent product.Excellent product combined with reasonable sales investments based on pre-set KPIs will allow you to navigate unpredictable ground and is likely to substantially increase your chances of success and reach the desired networking effect . . .
Read MoreWhy is SaaS business a good match to venture debt?
Venture debt is useful for companies who are still in the cash burn phase (negative cash flows) or lack the collateral required to access traditional debt. This is very relevant to the SaaS business model since development costs are usually high before the first minimum viable product is created. After that there are additional costs to acquire customers, and it generally takes a while before a company starts to generate revenue . . .
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Venture Debt - A tool for financing a growing business
Venture debt is a useful tool for startups and growing companies who are still in the cash burn phase (negative cash flows) or lack the collateral required to access traditional debt. This means venture debt is available earlier than traditional debt in your capital structure, usually whilst your business is younger and in the steepest part of its growth . . .
Read MoreWhy does it take so long to raise Venture Capital to finance a good SaaS business?
We know that the time taken to raise financing can run into the hundreds of hours. Here we go over three of the reasons why this can be the case (slower growth, threat of competition, complicated model or product) and some points to consider to make the process more efficient . . .
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