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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). Not my problem.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. We spend way too much time, particularly in and around the New York area, teaching fundraising versus company or product building.

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard. In casino and finance structures, it is unacceptable to make mistakes.

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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. In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”