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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space

Steve Blank

We just completed the seventh week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. and China ” New York Times, Jan.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Working on it. And being ambitious.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. One thing common to 2014’s most intriguing upstarts is how they didn’t just serve themselves: They empowered others to innovate, too. Here are 2014’s most influential small companies.

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How publishing brands can grow internationally in 2014

The Next Web

Pick your analyst report – they all pretty much indicate that 2014 will see consumers approach and pass the tablet horizon. The New York Times also set up its online pay-wall in 2010 (allowing access to 10 free articles per month) and by 2012 there were 640,000 subscribers. Consider the mobile OS mix.

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Twitter Link Roundup #207 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups – crowdspring.co/1cC7HmZ. New research casts doubts on the benefits of open offices. An awesome overview of the Chicago tech scene – crowdspring.co/1krnniz. Tech Angels Cross The $1Billion Mark In 2013 | TechCrunch – crowdspring.co/1fehao1.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I realized that this was an opportunity to solve a huge problem for an entire generation of parents and their kids using technology. Thanks to Jen Ohlson, Interactive Health Technologies ! #5- We started our business in 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. the golden era of technology. 9- Find my passion.