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SXSW Startups: AirPop Makes Healthy Air

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 4, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11, 50 startups from around the world will attempt to impress a panel of judges with their skills, creativity and innovation. AirPop attended Startup Grind , Rock Health Summit and Startup Health Conference in 2017, all in the Bay Area.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: PurePlus

Austin Startup

Amy Keller’s startup PurePlus transforms produce that would be wasted into healthful candy The Forrest Four-Cast: February 24, 2020 If food waste were a country, it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases behind China and the U.S. PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

Stanford’s research on the earth’s ionosphere would lead to meteor-burst communication systems and Over the Horizon Radar used by the NSA and CIA to detect Soviet and Chinese missile tests and ultimately to the research that made Stealth technologies possible. In 1949, the Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon and ended the U.S

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The ever growing Israeli Generative AI landscape April 2023

VC Cafe

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. But it’s not only the AI startups that are active in the generative AI space. We published the first version of the landscape in February 2023 , which included 40 startups.

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Austin: Airbnb “Super City” and Hotspot For Emerging Boutique STR Purveyors

Austin Startup

Austin is also a destination market for many of the increasingly large segment of startups that manage STRs one could describe as either “aparthotels” or “boutique STRs”: a modern spin on the corporate apartment concept, if you will. Among the myriad startup aparthotel ventures, The Guild ?—?which is likely to remain a salient one.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. This is the man you’ll need to impress should you wish to slice off a piece of the sFund pie for your startup. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.