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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. 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.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews. We became a global company and it was truly an entrepreneurial dream come true for Brant, our team, and me. Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. It worked, big time.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. Foreign direct investment in Israel reached $3.8

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Uber Needs to Transition from “Pirate” to “Navy”

Reid Hoffman

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. If you’re building a global business, there are three key elements you need to put in place: A set of country managers who are responsible for, and have strong executive control over, their individual markets. The pirates of entrepreneurship.