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The Innovation State of the Union

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. Unfortunately the US government has muddied the waters by not implementing real industrial and technology policies.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

The university found government contracts profitable as the government reimbursed their overhead charges (their indirect costs.) Over a hundred government contractors reviewed Stanford’s work on tubes and systems. The lab would repeat the conference the following week for government agencies doing military work.

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. In 2013, California was the only place that had regulations on ride sharing. That’s data.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Virtualitics

Austin Startup

One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virtualitics uses patented technology, based on a decade of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The cornerstone feature of VIP 2020 is its “Network Graph” package. Department of Defense, Nestle and University of Southern California.

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The Startup Pivot

Reid Hoffman

For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. Peter, Max, Luke Nosek , and I held an off-site at my grandparents’ house in Gualala, California, to figure this out.

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Will Cities Be Ready for 5G?

Austin Startup

5G is the latest iteration of cellular technology, engineered to exponentially increase the speed (up to 100 times current levels ) and responsiveness of wireless networks. It will also facilitate a massive increase in the amount of data transmitted over these networks. billion people are set to have access to 5G networks?—?a