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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. Startups on Air – Startup founders, CEOs, and CTOs dive into their companies’ histories, products, and technical architecture. Amazon and AWS take a hands on approach to supporting startups across stages.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

During World War II the demands of war industries caused millions more Americans to move to where most defense plants located. Just as the consensus for this type of architecture was coalescing, a new idea emerged in 1946 – the concept of a general purpose digital computer with a von Neumann architecture.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

These programs run on the same type of classic computer architectures they were programmed in. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture). Other AI Hardware Architectures. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo.

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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

That’s something that a business founder might have some ideas about, but it really takes a product manager to weigh resource constraints, internal input, customer demands, etc. Usability practices informnation architecture information design copywriting design process management editing and curation interaction design visual design.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

The distributed workforce will continue to add impetus to the zero trust architecture imperative and infrastructure as code will lead to the convergence of code security, application security and cloud security. API-ification of fintech infrastructure - Banking infrastructure tooling is now productised and also targets non-fintechs.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.]

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

ABM/Demand Gen), Richard Crowley (Slack, Ops Architect), Misha Brukman (JanusGraph, co-founder). Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue.

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