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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

And will society demand to have more of the algorithmic black box that feeds it information exposed in public? Consider the above paragraph versus how this year started. VC funds invested directly in MakerDao’s Dai stable coin.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50. Dev Sec Ops is the hot topic in security: With the velocity of software development and the reuse of software components, building in security at developer level becomes a must have.

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The Necessity of Secure File Sharing for Boards of Community Banks

Board Effect

Community banks need to have a good understanding of their customers’ financial needs and demonstrate that they’re willing to go the extra mile to partner with residents of the community. Such risks aren’t working taking as they can leave your board in violation of SEC regulations or other current or future regulations.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

Once we saw this evidence, we thought, "Wait a sec, we can actually do something about it." I still run the research group in Cambridge with 11 post-docs and grad students, where we work on machine learning, algorithms for drug design and molecular design. Alpha Lee : Right, so I then started a research group in Cambridge.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. AppDynamics.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

Prior to the JAIC General Shanahan ran Project Maven, an unintentional dry-run for how the DOD and commercial companies could partner (or not) to build AI-enabled apps. Maven partnered with Google to build a computer vision tool for imagery analysts to automatically detect objects/targets. A second, third time, so on, and so on.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. So from a pure computer science point of view, I had never really studied consensus algorithms in depth. And so the algorithm essentially proposes how using something called hashing power or proof of work. And it would be amazing.

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