Week In Review for Bitcoin, Wearable Tech

As always, check out the hashtags of each of the topics to get up to the minute information.

Bitcoin
- Guardian article (link here) on the democratic disruption of finance. Thanks for the tweet @howardlindzon. 


Wearable Tech
- Nike drops Fuelband, Marketwatch story here.

Nike Fuelband Not A Failure, Neither Is Wearable Tech

This week, Nike announced that they are stopping production of the Fuelband. In a few articles, there is a sense that because Nike stopped producing the Fuelband, wearable technology is on the downturn. See Yahoo! article here. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Nike stopped because the Fuelband doesn't fit into its classic business. There are also other competitors that have a far superior technological expertise in the wearable tech space than Nike. When you have companies like Apple, Samsung, Fitbit, Polar, and others generating these products, it makes the case that Nike should not be in the space.

If you think are wondering if the Wearable Tech revolution is dead, go on twitter and hashtag wearabletech and see what you find.

Week In Review of Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

Here is some news in regards to Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding. As always, check out the hashtags of each of these topics to find out up to date information.

Bitcoin

- The current price of Bitcoin (per Coinbase) is $500.00.

3D Printing
- Gillette getting into 3D Printing, 3Dprint.com article here.
- 3D Systems partners with Staples, article here.

Wearable Tech

- There will be a Wearables Hackathon starting April 25th. Info here.
- A Wearables Startup Guide Techcrunch article here.
- Fortune article on how corporate wellness programs are adopting wearable tech, story here.


Crowdfunding

- How One Spark Ignites Ideas, Entrepreneur article here.

Week In Review for Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

As always, check out the hashtags of each of these topics to see what is going on.


Crowdfunding
- Will Wheaton crowdfunds Table Top. Sheldon will not be happy. Wired article here.


Wearable Tech

- Andreesen Horowitz partnering with Wearable Intelligence, a Google Glass application. Recode story here.

Week In Review in Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Crowdfunding, and Wearable Tech

As always, hashtag each topic for up to date info through Twitter.

Bitcoin
- A Wired article on how Bitcoin is changing the world, even if not as a currency. The story is here.

3D Printing
- Woman has entirely new 3D printed cranium, dvice.com story here.

- 3D Market to grow by leaps and bounds. CNBC.com article here.

- 3D Systems bringing printing to New York show. Marketwatch story here.

Crowdfunding
- Crowdfunding used as research, Bloomberg story here.


Wearable Tech

This Week In Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

As always, Twitter is a great way to check up on each of these exciting breakthrough areas. Just hashtag each of them and get a wealth of information. Some of what was found to be important is below:

Bitcoin

- Marc Andreesen discusses Bitcoin per Techcrunch article here.
- IRS to tax Bitcoin as property, not currency. The Bloomberg story is here.
- Current price of Bitcoin (per Coinbase) is $517.00


3D Printing

- Crain's Chicago Business article on how 3D Printing is revolutionizing surgery. Story here.

Wearable Tech

- Wearable Tech "energizing" battery industry with possible $70 million boost. Recode story here.

Crowdfunding

- Reminder of benefits from crowdfunding not all it's cracked up to be (ex. Facebook purchase of Oculus). Pando article here.

This Week in 3D Printing, Bitcoin, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

It was a busy week in the different industries. An easy way to find out more about these topics is to hashtag them on Twitter. It's great to see the development of the topics continue.

Bitcoin

- Mt. Gox is back in the news "finding" 200,000 bitcoins in an old wallet. The Yahoo! Reuters story is here.

3D Printing

- On the investment side, a client named KDK Options purchased a call option for 3D Systems. The blog post is here.

- HP announced plans to enter the market later on in the year. The Marketwatch story is here.


Crowdfunding

- Crowdfunding is expanding in the EU. The Reuters story is here .

Wearable Tech

- There was a large convention about wearable tech in London. A link to a story on the show is here.

- Google has released its its software to its arsenal to help develop wearable tech items. The Time story can be found here.

This Week in Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Crowdfunding, and Wearable Tech

With all four topics, a good way to get a handle (HA!) on what is going on is to hashtag each one on twitter. Plenty of news and notes are published daily.

Bitcoin

- Per Coinbase, a bitcoin is now worth $639.81.

- Buffet says to "Stay Away" per WSJ article here 


3D Printing
- Combining 3D Printing and Crowdfunding through new 3D Materials story here (per 3ders.org).

- 3D Printing Medical Awesomeness With New Fingers For Young Girl (3Dprint.com story here)

Crowdfunding

- PayPal is now more Crowdfunding Friendly (Ent story here)

Wearable Tech
- Wearables helping the elderly from Wearable World News (story here)

March 2-8 Week In Review (KDK Options, Bullied Comics, more)

Hey everyone

It was another week of growth for companies associated with Keane Venture Capital and Consulting. The following items happened:

- Bullied Comics is in touch with a national anti-bullying organization in regards to partnering for a continued developed solution to bullying. Bullied Comics also made a presentation at Elgin High School in Elgin Illinois over the weekend. Congrats!

If you want more information on Bullied Comics, please email to bulliedcomics@gmail.com or follow on Twitter @bulliedcomics.

- KDK Options closed out a trade in Morgan Stanley (link here)and opened up another with the VIX (link here).

Email any comments, questions, or concerns to kdkoptions@gmail.com.

- Post on the week's activities in Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding is available to read here.

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This week in Bitcoin, 3D Prining, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding

Hello all

Bitcoin

- There was no bigger story than that of finding the possible founder of Bitcoin. Newsweek broke the story. The link to the Bloomberg story is here.

- The value of Bitcoin (per Coinbase) is currently $638.60.

3D Printing

- The thinking is that there is no other place to be this week in regards to 3D printing than SXSW in Texas. It can be said at the moment Shapeways is having a fantastic festival with their easy to use platforms.

Wearable Tech

- SXSW is also busy checking out wearable tech.

- Be sure to check #wearabletech for a ridiculous amount of news covering this topic.


Crowdfunding

- Be sure to check #crowdfunding for all things crowdfunding.

This week in Bitcoin, 3D Printing, Wearable Tech, and Crowdfunding (Mt. Gox, Kickstarter, more)

Bitcoin

Coinbase's Brian Armstrong discusses the Mt. Gox situation in a Tech Crunch article (link here). It is important for the survival of the Bitcoin industry to be out in front on this issue. Everyone in the industry will need to work as one and be extremely transparent with their dealings in the near future.

One problem with the Mt. Gox collapse is the continued use of the word "disappearance" of the bitcoins. The bitcoins did not disappear and are in the control of someone else. It would help the industry a great deal to be able to catch the hackers and at the very least expose their actions.

Wearable Tech

- @wearablenewscom is a reliable handle in the wearable tech sector. Continue to use #wearabletech to see all things wearable being tweeted.

- Passing this GIGAOM article about having success in the wearable tech industry. The link is here.


3D Printing

- There is a monster governmental project to speed up the 3D printing process. The Forbes article link is here. Cincinnati Incorporated is partnering with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the project.

 

Crowdfunding

- Kickstarter is close to reaching $1 billion of project funding. With contracts worth 3-5%, the founders are somewhere around 30-50 million dollars richer before expenses.

KVCC Person/Group of The Week is Polar

Each week, a person or group is promoted for their work in creating or improving a product or service. If Keane Venture Capital and Consulting has any relationship with the person or group, it will be disclosed. The weekly highlight does not mean that KVCC is recommending a purchase of a product or service. The article is not sanctioned by the individual or group. 

This week, the group of the week is the wearable technology company Polar. They were chosen because of their consistent, extensive, and successful work done in this area for over 30 years. The amount of new wearable tech companies along with companies that are regularly focused on other areas that now are entering this market is a true validation to the vision and plan of the founders and employees of Polar. So while you will hear about all the new this and new that about heart monitors from other companies, know that Polar has been doing it for three decades. 


Previous People or Groups of the week include John Legere and T-Mobile, Not Imposssible Labs and Time, Good Guide, AngelList, Patagonia, Blackrock Group, and Nest.