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

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. It’s a bunch of vertically integrated snowflake applications with a mouse and a keyboard and a screen.

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

Many customers think about the solution or service as a fancy add-on, but not as a part of operational processes. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. Use IP-identification to better serve your customers.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. This can improve indications and warnings for military operations and active cyber defense.

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Covid-19 is a marathon, not a sprint, for startups in US, UK and Israel

VC Cafe

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. In the meantime, we have what we have today. This is again a much deeper topic to explore and I will do that in early 2019. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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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. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. To capture any material part of the $400B that Cook is forecasting, Snap will need to control the underlying operating system on which the glasses function.