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[US] [Event] Launch Tennessee’s Southland Conference To Highlight South’s Top 50 Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

Launch Tennessee , a public-private partnership that supports the creation and development of high-growth companies in Tennessee, will draw attention on the top 50 early-stage companies in the South during Southland , its new conference highlighting the best in technology and Southern culture in Nashville on June 12-13.

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How we changed the way the U.S. government commercializes science: Errol Arkilic — Part 1 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111

Steve Blank

Today he is the founder of M34 Capital , a seed capital fund that focuses on early-stage projects being spun out of academic and corporate research labs. Steve : … If I remember, you and I brought on Georgia Tech, and then University of Michigan and then how many more? The Origins of National Science Foundation I-Corps.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

It possesses a strong corporate base, talented workforce, and a vast network of nationally ranked universities, startup development organizations and innovation-minded companies to support a robust tech ecosystem,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Texas is ranked the #2 state for black founders to launch a company, only behind Georgia.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. If we’re correct, we can compress the time for commercializing scientific breakthroughs and reduce the early stage risks of these new ventures.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things. Eat not too much of this and more of that, but the whole network and system of how your body uses it and interacts with its environment is just so incredibly complex. Robert Rhinehart : It's a bit of a roundabout path.

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Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E

Reid Hoffman

If groundbreaking artists like Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keefe, and Frida Kahlo were alive today, I’m sure they’d be experimenting with DALL-E. Even in the early stages of ideation, an architect may want to explore a skyscraper that’s exactly 50 stories high, not just “very tall.”

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