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Performance competition is a good thing

TechEmpower

If you've not been watching the ASP.NET team's community standups , you have missed some surprisingly transparent, interesting, and oftentimes funny updates from a major web application framework development team. We started the Framework Benchmarks project to collect data about performance. Clearly we're seeing a new Microsoft.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. ” Here are some examples: 1.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. When should a VC invest?

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s set up a framework. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company?

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

In a recently published paper, Horvitz and Stanford computer science PhD student Ethan Fast analyzed the last 30 years of articles about artificial intelligence in the New York Times. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We