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

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” In my first post earlier this summer, I highlighted the fact that we’re still a ways off from truly autonomous vehicles, despite many decades of technological advances to assist drivers. Most of the focus in terms of press, investment, or consumer enthusiasm is currently focused on vehicle technology development.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

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In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. The teams out of top engineering schools like Stanford, CMU, MIT, Virginia Tech, and others that competed in the DARPA Challenges in 2004 / 2005 / 2007 now make up the backbone of the R&D teams for most of the commercial efforts in this space.

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The Future of Internet & Cars

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With chips running large parts of cars came basic diagnostic tools like the “check engine” light to OBD ports. And to be fair ubiquitous connected computing is but one of the enabling technologies for driverless cars (computer vision, AI, etc).

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The Hulu Auction ? Content Is Still King ? AGILEVC

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Providence Equity invested $100M at a $1B valuation not because of their technology or product, but because the network owners contributed a lot of valuable content… or at least access to it for 2years. HBO only turns out a few shows a year, but it’s the major cash generation engine within Time Warner these days.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

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1) Younger people building companies - Many of the biggest technologies companies ever built were started by people in their 20s. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? And what are the implications for these various startup hubs at an ecosystem level?