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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

First check leads in 5 founding teams, all in stealth. congrats to Fortress IQ on its $12mm Series A led by Lightspeed and a stealth co on their $13.5mm Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth. First check to Series B?—?congrats First check to Series A?—?congrats

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. The solution to continuous disruption requires new ways to think about, organize, and build and deploy national security people, organizations and solutions.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments In 2021

Hearpreneur

During hectic periods, the hiring department had difficulties locating specific files and maintaining paperwork, which took too much time. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- The potential client was so impressed that they turned around and hired him, even with a potentially workable offer on the table.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Fletcher Wimbush, The Hire Talent ! #2- Cryptocurrency is going to really disrupt banking by taking over one of its essential services, namely, secured payments. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #21- You could argue that in each case, he created a better option, so I think he does disrupt, quite successfully.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Where appropriate, patent or secure intellectual property by other means. Understanding of relevant laws, regulations and information security best practices.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Despite what some vendors may say, all languages scale, and its hard to argue that one language is fundamentally less secure than another. Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. One can, however, make these arguments about different frameworks.