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

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If one were starting from a blank sheet of paper designing for a world with autonomous cars, you probably wouldn’t have most of this stuff. Theoretically, an autonomous vehicle could be programmed to stop at any intersection if the car detected cross traffic. And this entire system was engineered for human-driven vehicles.

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

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He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. million CAD engineers and product designers using GrabCAD. I first met Hardi at the beginning of 2011 here in Cambridge.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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then we integrate loyalty programs, CRM, etc., Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . [link] Terence Donnelly. to personalize and enrich the experience. We’ve invested $1.3MM, and the VC’s in town are still wondering if we’re viable.

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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.

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

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Swipely is focused on payment marketing, namely unifying loyalty programs and payments for main street merchants. ACH is an outgrowth of the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire system and was never intended for merchant payments (it was designed to replace paper drafts for certain interbank transfers like direct deposit). Is that it?

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