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3 Startups To Watch Out For In 2018

YoungUpstarts

BRAVA Investment Launches Stealth Female Project. Fertility is a major issue and so Stealth Female Project is a startup that advertises innovative approaches to women’s fertility issues. Here, we have another fertility-related startup, with two innovative entrepreneurs, both women, operating out of Silicon Valley in California.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. Better search. It’s not uncharted territory?—?if Pick and Shovel’ plays.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. And what do you think about the controversy about stealth vs. not for startups? What are you working on now?

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In World War II the U.S. After the war the U.S.

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Ideas Matter

K9 Ventures

There is this common adage that gets thrown around in startup circles that “ Ideas don’t matter, and it’s all about the execution “ In fact, you can see for yourself what Google says when you search for “ It’s not the idea, it’s the execution.” Did search engines exist before?

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The Road Not Taken

Steve Blank

They were national efforts of hundreds of companies employing 10’s or 100’s of thousands of engineers. to build sensors, stealth and smart weapons previously thought impossible or impractical, would give us a major military advantage. Try searching for some of his letters on the subject. These technologies which allowed the U.S.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Think of a plane the length of a 767 airliner (but with 30 foot longer wings and 8 engines rather than 2) whose only mission was to FedEx 70,000 pounds of nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. Now we have ditched the cold war triad in the 21st century since the Soviet Union became Russia again and discovered its own style of capitalism.)