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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

Instrument Landing Systems – to help automate landings by giving the aircraft horizontal and vertical guidance. The flight management system also automates vertical and lateral navigation, fuel and balance optimization, throttle settings, critical speed calculation and execution of take-offs and landings.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: echoAR

Austin Startup

Grinshpoon talked about tech trends, what he likes about being in New York City, and why he would go to Mars. Technologies like that can usher new interaction techniques for AR/VR. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in New York City. What is your top goal for echoAR for 2020?

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SXSW Pitch Finalists: echoAR

Austin Startup

Grinshpoon talked about tech trends, what he likes about being in New York City, and why he would go to Mars. Technologies like that can usher new interaction techniques for AR/VR. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in New York City. What is your top goal for echoAR for 2020?

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in.

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Mark Siffin: The Visionary Genius Behind Maefield Development

YoungUpstarts

Maefield Development is a privately-owned, vertically-integrated real estate development firm headed up by Chairman and CEO Mark Siffin , who has been with the company since its formation in 1991. This, in turn, led to further land acquisition and the purchase and development of underperforming properties in urban markets from coast to coast.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. It’s big compared to other up and coming cities but that still is a long way from being Silicon Valley or New York City. It’s not Silicon Valley.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

. —– Reformation Partners is a new investment firm founded by three partners who spun out of FirstMark Capital ($3B AUM firm which was an early investor in Shopify, Pinterest, and Riot Games). Reformation Partners Fund I is a $20M fund with check sizes ranging from $500k-$1.5M; the firm targets 7.5%-20% 20% initial ownership.

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