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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

The JAIC is a tiny team, yet we have a product directorate with 32 products that we’re building across six verticals – all the way from warfighter health to Joint warfighting to Business Process automation, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, cybersecurity and predictive maintenance. Nand Mulchandani.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. Today’s Talented Engineers & Designers Need Top-Shelf Tools of the Trade. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. Just like cars with a great engine but no wheels. The Salesforce era was only at the beginning.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2019

Hearpreneur

So my primary goal for the next year is keeping our computing infrastructure costs at bay, especially as we are delivering more and more AI-powered processing-intensive product features to our clients, such as image recognition. Our business is all about social media data analysis, and the amount of that data almost doubles each year!

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. On the other hand, the Motorola 68000 microprocessor (used in the Sun and Apollo engineering workstations) and the IBM 360/370 mainframes were big-endian. What a great idea.

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Ardent 2: Get Out of My Building

Steve Blank

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.