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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

They shared their experiences of how technology has enhanced – and threatens to undermine – diplomatic work. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity. At the same time, it’s a chance to expose some career State Department employees to Silicon Valley thinking.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Microsoft's $100K India Startup Challenge Grant

ReadWriteStart

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

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Generate and Transformify: Umbrella Solutions to Help Businesses Hire Top Talent Worldwide

Transformify

As IT talent becomes scares in many technology hubs like London, New York, Silicon Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Berlin and many other big cities, the employers are left with no other option than looking for talent elsewhere in the world. London, 18.08.2018. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

Gust

Atlanta Technology Angels. New York Angels. Band of Angels (Silicon Valley). New Mexico Angels. Sand Hill Angels (Silicon Valley). In 2012 seven of the eight groups from California, Boston and New York were above the median of all groups. BELLE Capital (Michigan). Boise Angel Alliance.

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AI – Risk of Extinction

Start Up Blog

Altman’s doomsday vision of AI gone wrong is not uncommon in Silicon Valley. Both Peter Thiel and Google co-founder Larry Page have snapped up land in New Zealand and built bunkers. Readers will know that I’m typically positive when it comes to the emancipating power of technology. The AI Saviour?

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Cars, phones and drones – where disruption comes from

Start Up Blog

We will see new players emerge, with new business models as usage patterns change and we move to the era of the self drive car, or should we say the rolling computer. Seeds of disruption are constantly being sewn, even the disrupters are being disrupted, and sometimes this happens before a new technology achieves mass adoption.