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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

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Audio advertising matures – In Carat Trends 2021 the media agency expects there to be a significant increase in audio advertising as both brands and platforms realise its value and power. Audio will be a key component of the next wave of content and consumption, and it is set to continue to grow. credit App Annie.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

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The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Cognata (2017) – still in stealth, Cognata is developing Artificial Intelligence simulation engines for automated vehicles.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

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Now were not exactly in stealth-mode - weve pitched at Techcrunch - but Id rather not go dancing in my competitors faces. One concern I might have with doing this is that you are competing for ad space with your competitors. By putting yourself directly in their space you are alerting them to your emergence as a threat.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – December 13 2024

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on your $30M series C to enable media companies and content creators to record high-quality audio and video content directly from their browsers! Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M Well done Nadav Keyson and team Riverside.fm Great stuff Dor Sasson and team Stigg on your $17.5M

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How to get beta signups for your startup in 9 steps

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3 Don’t go too stealth. Unless you have tons of funding (see Kohort ), be careful about going too “stealth.” TNWs Daily Dose - 24 hours of tech news in 5 minutes [Audio]. Users like Robert Scoble have a heavy say in what people will embrace. Check out Klout to find the the most influential people you follow.

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone."

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

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an NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan enabled me to detect bat calls in audio). Graphcore (in stealth, see this video at 28:58) calls them Intelligent Processor Units. Actually, that’s a blog post all of its own, but here are a few examples: Clarify makes audio and video searchable via its API.