(11/8) The all-in-one tool you need to make informed NFT purchases

Welcome to the 13th edition of the Geeks Of The Valley (GOTV) Newsletter where we share our written memo on startups that have yet to raise any funding or announce it publicly, new startup ideas from some of the most original minds in tech and VC, and also episode of the week from our own GOTV podcast!

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🏢 Ayzd 

The Sparks ✨

• Massive NFT transactions in 2021.

  The market for NFTs soared to new highs (as of Q2 2021), with $2.5 billion in sales, up from just $13.7 million in the H1 of 2020. While major marketplace like OpenSea saw a new record high as of June in regard to the sales volume.

• Purchase the next NFT rocketship with enough information in your hand.

  Identify which projects are now gaining traction and which are losing their shine through the lists of *arguably* biggest NFT project database. Besides, Ayzd also helps buyers to stay ahead of the NFT trends and news through its in-house aggregator.

💡Startup Ideas

1. Zach Waterfield, Team lead for Fundraising Products @ On Deck.

Zach Waterfield 🍊 @zlwaterfield

Any alternatives to Grammarly that are open source or do all the computation locally so ALL my data isn’t all being sent to their servers?

2. Ali Abdaal, Podcaster (2.27M subscribers).

Ali Abdaal @AliAbdaal

Startup idea - Enter someone’s name and it searches through everything they’ve published online (blogs, tweets, videos, podcasts) and generates a feed, ordered sensibly, maybe by popularity of posts, that lets you download their brain into yours 1/2

3. Patricia Mou, Senior Product Manager @ Calm.

Patricia @patriciamou_

request for start-up: Before I die, I want to take my "digital identity" + writings off of 3rd party platforms and put it in a "digital graveyard", where it'll forever live as long as the Internet exists. Essentially, it's democratized immortality.

💡 Episode Of The Week

As the Managing Director of Strategic Venture Partnerships at Honda Innovations, Dennis leads Honda’s global open innovation initiatives and strategic partnerships with startups.

Before joining Honda, he worked in early-stage venture capital building bridges between technology upstarts in Silicon Valley and multinational corporations. Early in his career, he spent eight years in Japan working in a variety of sectors including banking and international civil service.

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