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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. I’ve worked with dozens of startups and it only works that way for a small fraction of cases.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. He also sits on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and created Second Life.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately, There are other networking effects that we will be unleashing, both natural and technological, as we progress through our multi-year strategic plan.