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AI – Risk of Extinction

Start Up Blog

Michael Tontchev, a former Microsoft software developer and current senior software lead at Meta has his at 20 per cent. Both Peter Thiel and Google co-founder Larry Page have snapped up land in New Zealand and built bunkers. Here are some of the worried AI researchers and their P(Doom) percentages.

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Go global or grow local? The Kiwi startup quandary

NZ Entrepreneur

The study revealed that if Niesh first targets growth domestically in New Zealand, they will be better able to replicate their model in overseas markets and have appropriate growth strategies. New Zealand startups need to know that the local market is limited by the relatively small population of 4.8

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Build a winning IP programme for successful innovation

NZ Entrepreneur

The work I have done with Air New Zealand, building an IP culture and programme, had full and visible support from the then CEO, Rob Fyfe. One of my clients was concerned enough about this to set up a ‘clean room’ for a new software development project. Visible and meaningful support from the top.

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How AI is literally helping Kiwi businesses grow

NZ Entrepreneur

Myles Matheson, a Data & AI specialist at Microsoft New Zealand, says the first step in talking to customers about AI is to understand what it means to them. Although this is less about the functionalities of ‘how’ to do it and more about ‘why’, it is a critical business tool to aid in growth. Selling’ the concept of AI.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Twitter Link Roundup #208 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The video above is a terrific anti-speeding ad from New Zealand. A radical new take on the world’s most design-forward light bulb – slate.me/1d0tjVS. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. by Becky McCray – crowdspring.co/1cXKpqQ.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

There are many analogies here for software development. He got people to do bootlegged mixtapes in new york, france and new zealand. He created demand. Sometimes he didn’t even have the product when he announced it but the hype would get him focused on what he had to produce. Cham had other ideas.