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Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One

TechEmpower

Why do this without the right technical advisor? Just like attorneys, technical advisors can help navigate waters that many find murky. Actually, many startups need two kinds of technical advisors. CTO Founder – Do they really still need a technical advisor? Would you create contracts without an attorney?

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. Third party products are used appropriately. Review the code being built.

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

Xconomy

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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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. There are CEOs that always seem to guide their companies to the right place at the right time and drive their stock valuations up. What a boring mess.

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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. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company?

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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The Work of Film Through Technology: Interview with CG Supervisor Morris May

Tech Zulu Event

I have worked on CG films where the script was re-written half way through production several times,” explains May. This is a technological innovation of the past decade and perhaps the most extreme case of using the actors ‘nuances.’. A style guide will dictate color scheme, mood, feel, etc. The Breakdown Behind CG.