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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress. From security inks to sunlight harvesting with windows, your product range is wide.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So we opened the goFlow platform from surfing-only to 10 new verticals: Paddle-boarding, Diving, Fishing, Skateboarding, Cycling, Golfing, Snow sports, Boating, Kitesurfing and more to come. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. — in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it?

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Power Recommendation Engines. Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints. Examples here , here and here. An example application is Dall-E. Generative Design of Physical Products.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico. We raised enough money for engineering, testing and manufacturing, but I faced a dilemma. We are able to do that because: 1.