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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.) Welcome to our brave new world.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. Personal supercomputer s meant yet again learning something completely new; new computer architectures, new applications and customers, new markets. to move their applications to our unique machine 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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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

The company reaches more than 8 million internet users each month through some of the top applications on Facebook and other social networks. Buddy Media builds, promotes and monetizes one of the largest networks of engaging and entertaining social media applications on the web.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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What’s different this time around (as opposed to the tech bubble of the late 1990s) is the widespread use of technology, “digital natives” (millennials who grew up with the Internet and mobile phones) coming of age, and a cultural shift towards self-employment and risk taking (again, powered by stark economic realities).

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative.

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