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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. At the end of the day, Apple isn’t really a software platform company. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. June 5, 2012.

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

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Tesla has already released updates to its Auto-Pilot software to further refine situations like this. . 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. various signs conveying context, traffic control mechanisms (stop lights, etc.),

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

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Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers.

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GrabCAD’s Acquisition: From Talinn to London to Boston

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He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed. million CAD engineers and product designers using GrabCAD. Fast forward to today and there are over 1.5

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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Here in Boston the same dynamic as Silicon Valley has been afoot… at least in the software/internet sphere, the majority of startups have migrated from the suburban loop of Rt 128 back into the urban core of Boston & Cambridge. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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Our Investment in Cloze ? AGILEVC

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We amass all of this information in our emails, social networks, smartphone address books, and other software tools (e.g. And Cloze’s product is designed from the get go around mobile usage in addition to the desktop web (>20% of LinkedIn traffic today is smartphones & tablets).

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