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Target market advisory boards

Austin Startup

For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. The target market advisory board should consist of 2–4 industry veterans who have connections to C-level execs and VPs in your target market. Never discount the power of a warm intro.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. Agilent is a $5.8

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

I truly believe this is the year where quantum dots make a name for themselves in agriculture, and so its about marketing, sales, manufacturing, and generally about traction in the market. One worked at a different quantum dot startup based in the UK that’s now publicly traded, another built a vertically integrated cannabis company in Oregon.

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Human-Centered AI

Reid Hoffman

Dr. Li recently joined Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman on Iconversations to discuss the ethical considerations researchers, technologists and policymakers should make when developing and deploying AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Human-Centered AI

Reid Hoffman

Dr. Li recently joined Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman on Iconversations to discuss the ethical considerations researchers, technologists and policymakers should make when developing and deploying AI. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. You can listen to the conversation here. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.