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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? Tell me about the business.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

It certainly worked out pretty well when Stanford licensed the search technology that Larry and Sergei had been working on back to them at Google. You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. Yet, that's where the job growth comes from--small companies.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. Go ahead,” Ford commanded, “and stay on the job until you succeed no matter how much time is required.” -- drostan 215 days ago | link. humbledmba.com) 279 points by jaf12duke 216 days ago | comments. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison,Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Gordon Moore. This doesnt work well.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. Today is that day. I “failed” at the first 2 companies I tried.