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

Steve Blank

We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year. If we agree that the next generation of warfare is going to be fought at the speed of software, you need these end-to-end systems all connected together in a backplane, a platform. The graph on the left just doesn’t work.

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It’s Time To Ship

Eric Friedman

Why Shipping Is Important When Building Shipping defines software engineering in a magical way that is challenging to understand. Examples of this are the 30+ people that Craigslist employs, a platform accessed by millions, if not billions, of internet users every day. When executed correctly, it’s admirable.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Software was expensive. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. Today, engineering pay is at an all-time high, and rising fast : According to Gerstenzang, whose firm has backed Instagram, Pinterest, and other big Internet names, that may be about to change.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Those apps were then abandoned after he showed them off.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. I build apps all the time, how hard could it be to launch a product? Congratulations!