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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition  – 2022 Wrap Up

Steve Blank

Government agencies to provide context and perspective on commercial technologies and national security. Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the CIA’s CTO and COO Nand Mulchandani and Andy Makridis. ” Team 3: Acquisition. Our class opened with three guest speakers; former U.S. ” Team 2: Networks.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems. 2. Information is everywhere.

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

BeyondVC

There were lots of robots, aerial shows with model planes and helicopters, great discussions on current technology trends, and of course, plenty of beer and laughs. So what do VCs that invest in Internet companies do? I do not think that Internet VCs are dead, but rather, need to reinvent themselves.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

That moves into the customer acquisition strategy. This includes again another acronym I’m going to share, CAC, the cost to acquire a customer, the customer acquisition cost. Are you doing an acquisition? The customer acquisition cost that I talked about. There’s a lot of chambers of commerce.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator. Founded in 2014, the fund has built the most recognized brand focused on leading female-run opportunities in internet and software startups.

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F2F Still Matters

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this class session included What The Machine Learning Value Chain Means For Geopolitics , How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order, An Understanding Of Ai’s Limitations Is Starting To Sink In , and The Panopticon Is Already Here. AI and The Department of Defense. That’s it.