Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Scientific research in overdrive. Data capacity is measured in petabytes (1000 terabytes), or soon even yottobytes (10 24 ). Data is the new weapon of defense.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t.

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Xconomy

JULY 29, 2016

For consumer robots, though, people want to talk naturally and we need to design casual dialogs that make it easy to express desires without having to give every small detail. Why not just design them to be nice all the time? Also, language allows for multiple interpretations (e.g., rules of engagement without an operator in the loop.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. I love the design of your product. He is still not sure. His body language says, “how can somebody who hasn’t done what I do at the level I have be my leader?&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. Also note that AJAX finally took off when Google open-sourced a bunch of its internally built AJAX frameworks.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What technology research is required? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Accounting?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

In many ways, this was like all the other Tesla events I’ve attended: the pumpy music and mood lighting, the designed-to-inspire kick off video, the Tesla superfans (pictured below), and the long lines for a brief test ride. Some companies were already operating these services; this action created a regulatory framework.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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