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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

. + 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW!

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Some of the readings for this class session included What The Machine Learning Value Chain Means For Geopolitics , How Artificial Intelligence Will Reshape The Global Order, An Understanding Of Ai’s Limitations Is Starting To Sink In , and The Panopticon Is Already Here. AI and The Department of Defense. I want you to come into that.

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Salto - Bringing DevOps to Cloud App Configuration

Cracking the Code

To provide more color, the global Salesforce Services market alone is estimated at $14.5bn today, with Salesforce itself earning approximately $1bn in service revenues in the last year. Technical teams that offer these services are usually trained and certified, for example, Salesforce and ServiceNow developers. Enter Salto.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Today, TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute is announcing in conjunction with law firm Wilson Sonsini, Convertible Equity, a startup-friendly seed-financing vehicle intended to replace Convertible Debt notes. FOUNDER INSTITUTE. Company: Founder Institute. Since 2009 the Founder Institute has helped. Crunchbase.

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

techcrunch.com

This is where a lot of founders get stuck. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Eugene Sepulveda (@EugeneAustin) | Twitter Ingrid Vandervelt CEO & Founder EBW2020 Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 (EBW2020).