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19 Entrepreneurs List Their Favorite Technology Innovation

Hearpreneur

Innovations like blockchain, virtual reality, and cloud computing are transforming business and communication. I quickly built a prototype that would connect to each of my bank accounts and aggregate all of the accounts & transactions into one platform. I was solving my own pain point as a consumer.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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Work Is Love Made Visible

YoungUpstarts

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). The United Nations predicts that by 2050 our planet will be populated by 9 billion people, which makes food supply a fundamental issue. Today, with about 7.2

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. The Nine Teams Present. The first team up was Autonomow , the robotic mower farm weeder.

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AI Enthusiasm is Not a Bubble and Even if it was We Wouldn’t Necessarily Know it Yet

Hunter Walker

It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth More In Aggregate Than is Currently Being Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed) In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ SaaS and Cloud perhaps?) There’s a lot of yumming AI right now and it’s of course perfectly fine (often helpful!)

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Most of the firms had some critical component that had something to do with using Web protocols or the cloud. Two events this week in St. Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there.

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

Cloud computing is almost infinitely scalable. Massive, cloud-based repositories of customer interactions, often called data lakes, are the raw source material for predictive analytics applications. Many companies have taken advantage of cheap cloud storage to stow away data for years— without even considering its potential use.

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