Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

Every business is global, but patent rules differ around the world. That’s more than a lifetime in today’s technology. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology. Copyright intellectual property protection is already given automatically and immediately without the need to register the copyright with a government.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

But don’t lose sight of the fact that we’re already in the midst of a deadly global epidemic. According to the World Health Organization , in 2016, more than 1.9 The prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016. Milis Bio began in May of 2016, in the RebelBio accelerator program run by SOS Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

The GSMA ‘s Global Mobile Awards are now open for online entry for its 2016 edition. The Glomo Awards 2016 will highlight the greatest achievements and innovations across the mobile industry and include more than 40 awards over eight categories. Best Mobile Technology. Government Excellence Awards.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering. Silicon Valley’s deep technology ecosystem. and globally. Simultaneously, each of us was actively engaged in helping different branches of the government understand, react, and deliver solutions in a rapidly changing and challenging environment.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

She has been named Chicago Business Journal Woman of Influence (2016), the National Association of Women Business Owners’ Woman Business Owner of the Year award (2015), the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Person of the Year award (2014), and Enterprising Women’s Enterprising Woman of the Year award (2013).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Salon C American Innovators in China with Eisenhower Fellow Chelsea Collier Four US innovators share their unique experiences traveling through China to discover people, culture, business, and food surprises while the 2016 Presidential election and historic World Series take place back home. Contrasting China via their Zhi-Xing (? ?,

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, during annual budget conversations, reiterated that bitcoin was not legal tender, and that the government would be clamping down on illegal activity using cryptocurrencies. Facebook, perhaps learning from the misuse of its platform during the 2016 US Presidential Election, banned all cryptocurrency ads.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Global Entrepreneurship Week took place last month around the world, and it was a rather opportune time for me to examine the factors that have helped Singapore startups succeed. There are also efforts by the government to share data collected by public agencies through online portals as part of the Smart Nation initiative.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests. Support U.S. Hacking for Diplomacy.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Branson, author of “ The Future of Tech Is Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity “ Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. by Douglas M.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests. Support U.S. Hacking for Diplomacy.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

and China threatens to escalate, 5G wireless technology has emerged as one of the major fronts in the long-term competition between the two superpowers. By 2035, 5G applications will add $12 trillion annually to the global economy , 5G technology development partner Qualcomm predicts. As a tariff war between the U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . You can scale much better.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. . You can scale much better.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

This technology has the potential to reduce global energy consumption by 25%. Using his financial background working as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs, he launched All Shades Covered in 2016. Louise Leolin and DinoByte Labs. Jonny Grubin and SoPost.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

By Brian Sutter, Director of Marketing, Wasp Barcode Technologies. Today, many of us enjoy a seamless technology experience – moving from our smart homes, to our connected cars and into the workplace without missing a beat (or a swipe). When a team member is terminated, you can erase any corporate information or apps from their phones.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S. has been down about 10% over the past 15 years.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2017

Common urban challenges like traffic, energy and waste reduction are all targets for technology-based solutions. And although there were of course differing perspectives, everyone seemed to agree on one overarching tenant: “Connected technologies must do one thing: provide solutions for the human experience.”

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 15, 2017

The Austin CityUP (ACUP) Consortium is leading the effort to turn Austin into a smart city that uses technology, data, and analytics to improves services, infrastructure, policies, and quality of life. cities face: the fact the mass transit system was built before the age of smartphones and other connected mobile devices.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect.” That started the intellectual dissonance in my brain.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 16, 2017

At the end of 2016, I went through the bittersweet ending of another chapter in my life by leaving Mercedes/moovel/RideScout. Since co-founding the DITAC and NSTXL almost four years ago, we continue to seek new ways for improve the government procurement system to help our warfighters deployed overseas and training here at home.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. By any definition, the opportunities from ‘big data’ have the potential to create a next wave of successful technology companies that could change the way we all live and work.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Take a look at The Fortune Unicorn List : of the top 100 most valuable unicorns in 2016, 39 are currently based outside of the United States. According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Here is the summary: VW has been marketing “clean diesel” technology on the basis of being environmentally friendly while also being fun to drive. Independent testing done by West Virginia University revealed that VW diesel cars were not in fact clean when compared to competitors, and exceeded EPA regulations governing emissions.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Tamara’s name is synonymous with technology and marketing. She has been ranked by Klear as one of the Top 1% of global Social Media Influencers and was B2B Marketing’s #1 Most Influential Woman in Martech. Gina Romero is a heralded visionary who has an abundant expertise in entrepreneurship, community and technology.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Strikingly, there are now several state and city government programs specifically designed to make it easier for non-Americans to found companies in NYC. In early 2016, New York City launched the International Innovators Initiative ( IN2NYC ). run technology-focused programming, e.g., trade missions.

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Transformify

MARCH 28, 2020

Transformify has pledged to the Digital Skills & Jobs Coalition of the EU Commission to leverage its proprietary technology to: (i) provide information to businesses about the transferrable skills of people in need; (ii) to enable the entire talent acquisition process including the payment transfers worldwide; and. Job Seekers. (i)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

More than a third of the global population has no access to traditional financial services. With more than one-third of the world’s population unbanked and more and more people using mobile phones, there is an outstanding opportunity for mobile payment technology to bring the financially omitted into the economic majority.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We just held our fourth sessions of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 26, 2023

If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on with regards to the future of TikTok in the United States, it is that congressional leaders have embarrassed themselves during the questioning of TikTok’s US CEO as the government considers whether or not to ban the popular app. From questions like, “Does TikTok access my home wifi network?”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We just had our third week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (our influence and footprint on the world stage). Russian Technology Strategy.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When speaking about the blockchain to many people in the United States, I get a puzzled look on why the technology matters. I didn’t take out my phone – still a feature phone, this was the year the iPhone was released – as I was told I may be followed and arrested if the government thought I was a journalist.

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