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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.) Until recently these rules have kept most biological lab accidents under control.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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Cyber Security At The Start

YoungUpstarts

This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. Bring awareness to employees with social engineering, training, and positive reinforcement tactics.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

Prior to that, she spent 12 years at Stanford; worked at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical as a research scientist; administered a dialysis clinical trial at University of California; and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses. I would generally say (we do) 50-50 (exclusive and non-exclusive licenses.).

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Rewiring Organizations For A Successful Digital Transformation

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And frankly, we we're, we're far enough down the learning curve here that I know we're putting sort of a lot of intellectual property out in the world through publishing this book and, you know, anybody that can have it and therefore, you know, do you, do you need to call us or not? And we wanna see the world do better.