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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

Or, to be more precise, there are a lot of similarities between the way the tech world is reacting to these two different technologies. First, the ease at which developers can get started working with AI models is starting to lead to a Cambrian explosion of products and applications that leverage this technology.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond.

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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Syracuse Student Sandbox.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. Global Demand.

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A Non-Profit Lean Startup: The Story of Adopt-a-Pet

Startup Lessons Learned

David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. Instead of running a non-profit that happened to be a web site, they reconceived Adopt-a-Pet as a technology company that happened to be a non-profit. The result was a reframing of how they understood their mission.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). VC has operated as an “old boys club”, with access to capital often requiring entrance through an elite university engineering department in one of two cities. Let’s start with the fund.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

1/mo means you can’t afford customer service and it must incrementally free to run the technology behind it, both of which have implications for the sort of product you have to build (e.g. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo