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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. AI to make IRL matches – What if you could chat with a bot that learns about you on a deeper level and uses this information to make a curated set of matches?

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

Steve Blank

Accelerators, hubs, cafes, open-sourcing, crowd-souring, maker spaces, Chief Innovation Officers, etc. It is a process that operates with speed and urgency, where innovators and stakeholders curate and prioritize their own problems/Challenges/ideas/technology. In peacetime innovation succumbs to the demands of execution.

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Four Trends In Artificial Intelligence That Affect Enterprises

YoungUpstarts

Contributing to these trends are less expensive and more powerful hardware, and open source end-to-end connected data platforms that maximize the value of data-in-motion and securely store, manage and perform complex processing of data-at-rest. Here’s a bit more on the four trends in artificial intelligence that affect enterprises: 1.

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The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

As Flickr did for the social web and consumption models, Github uses an open, social design for all sorts collaborative models, like Docracy 's open source contact negotiation tools, GrabCAD for mechanical engineers, or K nowable for physical DIY projects. Find me on." Those who participated became informed and followed.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

They have a willingness to ‘open source’. Particular niches will continue to pop up and be valuable because the content took time to digest and curate – like And now it’s in print. They thought we should be able to demand payment. They forgot about demand and supply. It’s already started: e-books, niche prints.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.