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Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers

Xconomy

From Microsoft and IBM to Alphabet’s unit X and Canada’s D-Wave Systems, companies are racing to build powerful quantum computers that may solve problems beyond the capacity of the most sophisticated conventional processors, and do it much faster.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries. 406 Ventures.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. What can they do for funding, where can they go for help? They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy.

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Saxena: More Than a Tool, A.I. Must Be Used With Society in Mind

Xconomy

startup CognitiveScale and managing director of The Entrepreneur Fund , which makes investments in early-stage machine learning companies, Saxena believes A.I. [ Updated 12/27/18, 9:54 am ] Manoj Saxena is bullish on artificial intelligence. As chairman of Austin, TX-based A.I.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. in Computer Science. in Computer Science.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. What is your mobile strategy? Then iterate and improve based on feedback.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. Give yourself a month.