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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

regulation happens on three levels: federal laws that are applicable across the country developed by Federal government in Washington, D.C. the government has regulatory authority over commerce between the states, foreign trade, and other business activities of national scope. In the U.S. Bill Gurley’s point.)

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search. If all that wasn’t enough, you have the problem of model hallucinations, where the conversational UI offers an answer that is well articulated, but completely wrong.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. But I’m going to contend that we’re still missing one leg of the stool, and that leg is Revenue Development. The product worked.

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Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs

Steve Blank

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Using this idea to differentiate themselves as the hot new Silicon Valley VCs, some of his former business school students made this phrase their rallying cry. First to develop or patent an idea. Product Pioneer.

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Instead of Asking AI Companies to ‘SLOW DOWN’ We Should Encourage Them to Move Even Faster

Hunter Walker

An AI Safe Harbor Provision Would Create Guidelines For Development & Safety Without Premature Regulations The conversation around Artificial Intelligence has started to take on a binary quality, rather prematurely, as if we were debating the two sides of a coin rather than a more complex shape. Let builders build as is” vs “Regulate.”

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. The New Exits. SecondMarket , SharesPost , etc.).

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What we can learn from the UK’s top franchises

The Startup Magazine

Whether it’s an automotive company, a fast-food establishment, or a chain of pubs, many business hopefuls use franchising as their route to market. The business kept expanding and moving into new territory throughout the 90s, with further establishments opened in Manchester, Wales and Scotland.

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