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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. In a startup the board of directors realizes that risk is the nature of new ventures and innovation is why they exist.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. In a startup the board of directors realizes that risk is the nature of new ventures and innovation is why they exist.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

However as a first check investor in enterprise startups, the companies that truly get my attention are more of the infrastructure layer companies like Mulesoft and Pivotal. What Pivotal understood early is that there is no digital transformation and agile application development without infrastructure spend.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure) for both training machine learning models and deploying inferences. History tells us that late adopters fall by the wayside as more agile and opportunistic governments master new technologies.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. The Difference Between Apple & Facebook. June 5, 2012. And Why 20%?

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. It probably isnâ??t

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