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Autonomous Vehicles: Can You Get There From Here? (Part 2)

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It’s also a reminder that, for the time being, driver attention is required even as more advanced aids or semi-autonomous systems are developed (all categorized as ADAS – advanced driver assistance systems). But the way forward will undoubtedly require meaningful changes to some combination of the following: Vehicle Development.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

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Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. June 5, 2012. In 2011 Facebook paid out $1.4

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? .

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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2) Design ethic vs engineers - Over the course of the last 5-10 years, many software-based startups are being built on competitive advantages of design and business model rather than technical differentiation. A hacker ethic is compatible with an urban setting just as design oriented one is compatible with a suburban one.

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

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But there are few products out there that federate the data across all of these systems and none that are solely focused on the individual user’s needs, as opposed to products designed to benefit company-wide usage or salesforce-wide usage. Is CardMuch integration available these days to third party developers? link] leehower.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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Virtually every mobile payments system in the developed world (see note #3) just piggybacks off the credit card system. Systems like M-Pesa (see note #3 below) took off because in developing nations prepaid wireless minutes were a parallel currency, fungible for real money.

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