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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. But the 2013 Snowden revelations damaged that tenuous relationship yet again. The Government Can’t Act Like a Startup. The government isn’t a bigger version of a startup and can’t act like a startup does.

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

Due to their unique oversight, governments have a surplus of data at their fingertips. Here are the facts about AI startups needing data , and how that helps governments. Here are the facts about AI startups needing data , and how that helps governments. government procurement data. All hope is not lost, though.

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The Chinese government appears to have completely blocked GitHub via DNS

The Next Web

— GreatFire.org (@GreatFireChina) January 21, 2013. There might be a chance that this is a temporary block, however, as with the Chinese government you just never know. Bad news for Chinese software developers. ” Just last week, there were reports of “No censorship detected.”

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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

> Uber's " Reality Therapy 4 Startups": What U Need 2 Know NOW > Steve Blank on why NOT to be an Entrepreneur > Airbnb's Globetrotting Lessons: Building 4 a Global Market > Vinod Khosla - The VC Legend: Interview w/ Dave McClure > Eric Ries on Entrepreneurship: What He's Learned Along the Way > GitHub's Secret 2 Success: Rethinking (..)

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2013 Top 10 Storage Trends: Hitachi Data Systems

YoungUpstarts

Big data is coming, but are governments, companies and even individuals prepared for its eventuality? This is one of the questions that was pondered over by Hubert Yoshida, vice president and chief technology officer of Hitachi Data System s, as he shared his top ten predictions on data storage trends for 2013 in a media briefing recently.

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[Singapore][Event] Inaugural PlugFest International Programming Competition Launches

YoungUpstarts

Public data such as traffic light images from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) and weather forecasts from National Environment Agency (NEA) – as well as more than 7,000 datasets from over 60 other government ministries and agencies – are all available for participants to create apps for social good.

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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. As privacy gets eroded through government activity we can expect a lot more anonymous forums to emerge as powerful web platforms.