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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. It’s a bunch of vertically integrated snowflake applications with a mouse and a keyboard and a screen.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. Context here.) I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. This provides both valuable experience and an understanding of the operational issues within each sector.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the 2023 Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

#4- Investments in digitalization will grow Photo Credit: Sean Stevens Even though small businesses have come a long way in adopting digitalization and tech solutions, 57% of small business owners say they still need to update their IT infrastructure to make their operations run more smoothly. Thanks to Steve Rose, MoneyTransfers ! #11-

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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

Automating their end-to-end eCommerce operations (from managing inventory to order fulfillment to customer service). Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. We are cash flow positive and can operate indefinitely without external funding. RH: Who are your customers?

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. Power Recommendation Engines. Classic Computers – Programming. Examples here , here and here.

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Top 9 Reasons to Choose Cloud App Development

The Startup Magazine

Microsoft Azure, Heroku, Google App Engine, and other well-established PaaS providers let you install your own cloud-based applications. There is a wide range of options for operating systems, applications, platforms, and language selection. You can increase or decrease resources, use vertical or horizontal scaling – as you wish.

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