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GPT-3:  An AI That Makes Cars, Not Wrenches And What It Means For The Legal Profession

YoungUpstarts

AI is getting tremendous attention and significant venture capital, but AI tools frequently underwhelm in the trenches. It is designed to accept as input a string of text and from that input predict, from a statistical analysis of everything it has ingested, what text should come next.

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Design Your Company Culture Like The World’s Largest Hedge Fund

David Teten

I made a lot of mistakes at Bridgewater, and this was by design. A successful organization designs, documents, and manages to a culture optimized for their particular situation. Alternative Assets Connecticut Contributed Articles ff Venture Capital Financial Services Fund Management Hedge Funds and Mutual Funds Investing Management'

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. Why did you pursue an MBA at Stanford?

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

checking out the shopping in Georgetown, saw beautiful horse country in Pennsylvania and upstate NY and headed down into the bays and coves of Connecticut filled with sailboats. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design. Karen Bantuveris, CEO of VolunteerSpot ( ff VC and angel-backed startup with 2.5m