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GPT-3:  An AI That Makes Cars, Not Wrenches And What It Means For The Legal Profession

YoungUpstarts

It is designed to accept as input a string of text and from that input predict, from a statistical analysis of everything it has ingested, what text should come next. Algorithms that were designed with enormous datasets, depend upon such large datasets in operation. At its core, GPT-3 is a text prediction engine.

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Design Your Company Culture Like The World’s Largest Hedge Fund

David Teten

Ray Dalio, Founder of Bridgewater Associates , the world’s largest hedge fund, is a man after my own heart. I made a lot of mistakes at Bridgewater, and this was by design. A successful organization designs, documents, and manages to a culture optimized for their particular situation. Photo credit: Prayitno .

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. And there you have it. Not a chance.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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How To Start A Startup – For Busy People

YoungUpstarts

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. Density – Yale’s campus is dense by design. Its residential colleges are designed to cross-fertilize students and faculty from different disciplines.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. Web Design/Tech Services. Connecticut. Connecticut. Replay the event. Travel Agencies.