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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group. The future of the Internet is video.

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The Booming Voice AI Landscape: A VC Perspective

VC Cafe

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever. Vertical Applications Taking Off.

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How Startups Can Keep Product Development Lean

YoungUpstarts

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Many argue that since their goal is to become a large company, they might as well hire the team early – because they will be needed down the road. If there is a possibility of a Pivot, the person you just hired may not be the right person after the Pivot.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business. So my advice to CTO / Founders?

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We’re building a supercomputer.” A few days later Gordon became a founder.

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Are DMs the new Cold Calls?

Duct Tape Marketing

And we're like, well, we know how to hire on board and train sales teams. So we find five clients, showed 'em how to hire onboard and train sales teams, and then we showed 'em how to close deals in their warm market. 07:55): And we're like, oh, well, we have a system for that that we're using even before the internet existed.