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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Security What are the business / application’s specific security risks?

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

Steve Blank

We just held our eighth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” Today’s topic was Artificial Intelligence and Modern War. JAIC Is Applied AI – Focused on Impact.

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. No board will accept that because many regulators will be concerned about security risks.

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Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO

konamoxt.com

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. Can you help us make sure this candidate would make a good CTO?&#

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). We have great intellectual property protection, and have efficient ways to enforce contracts. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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