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

Steve Blank

I’ve extracted and paraphrased a few of their key insights below, but there are many others throughout this substantive discussion, and I urge you to read the entire transcript ( here and here ) and watch the video. It’s a bunch of vertically integrated snowflake applications with a mouse and a keyboard and a screen. Nand Mulchandani.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. As a result, Zoom became a house name for video calling while their stocks grew by 545% in 1 year. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.”

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). Recognize and Understand Images and video streams. It can identify and detect an object or a feature in an image or video. It can even identify faces.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

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. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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Take Five: The Metaverse

VC Cafe

Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. Check out the list of derivate IP from the BAYC collection below. The IP universe of BAYC (Source: Animoca Brands/ FORJ Research). And to me, this kind of like immersive experience is clearly going to be the next step. Industry reports.

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Investing in Generative AI tools

VC Cafe

IP issues, malicious use, future regulatory risk – Midjourney. So how can Generative AI startups compete given these platform dependency, competition and IP risks? Regulation (and the platform’s own T&Cs) will have to catch up to the pace of bad actors to quickly address these risks. Is UX enough of a competitive moat?