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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. what distribution channel? We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Stay tuned.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Craze Digital is one of the world’s biggest Digital Entertainment indie companies, managing a host of online & mobile channels for high-demand Music & Video content, with a strong focus on innovative approach to monetization and distribution. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. Kaltura - Company Website.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source).

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. Atlassian open-sourced their M&A term sheet , a very aggressive move which helps smooth the M&A process, by reducing the number of degrees of freedom in a negotiation.

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

Marc Hedlund of Wesabe talked about this in his post-mortem stating: Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. 4 – Poor Marketing. 3 – Not the right team.