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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. Moore’s Law & the Global Semiconductor Industry. INTERACTIVE CHART “ Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage per Gigabyte 1980-2014” Human Progress. Andrew Inkpen, “ The Global Semiconductor Industry ” Thunderbird School of Management , 2021. [It

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The Rising AI Stars from China

VC Cafe

Until last week, when the news that a relatively unknown Chinese company called Deepseek, released its R1 reasoning model which is equivalent to the performance of ChatGPT’s o1 model, but is fully open-source and available at a fraction of the cost (3-5% of OpenAI’s model). firms at a fraction of the cost.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

This translates to cost savings and companies move away from the traditional fixed capacity infrastructure that may exceed or be insufficient to meet their needs. With the cloud, users may have significant cost savings as they shift their data and applications to the cloud. Governments adopting the use of the Cloud.

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How to choose the best global forwarding company?

The Startup Magazine

As globalization takes place, companies worldwide are looking for new opportunities to expand their business. Most of them would like to: find global partners or distributors. But finding global partners can be a challenge when you don’t know where to look for them and how to reach them. The list goes on.

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7 Reasons That Investors Won’t Fund Inventions Alone

Startup Professionals Musings

The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. Investors expect proof that your invention can be manufactured in volume, and can justify a sales price at least double the cost, to a large customer set that has money to spend.

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Welcome To The New Wave Of Opportunities And Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low. With the global market, the growth opportunity is huge, starting local and scaling at any pace.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

Act II was “revenge of the luddites” in which some local governments banned them and some annoyed citizens stole them or broke them. Scooters are now seen by the local government as an important long-term solution to both congestion and to reducing pollution. The key is being able to dial back variable costs during these period.