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Quantum Computing 101: Brilliant, Google, Microsoft Training Workers

Xconomy

But tech companies are already writing the novel kinds of software these revolutionary computers will need in order to operate—and businesses are even helping to train the workforce for a future era of “quantum speed-up.’’ It’ll be some years before such uber-computers are robust and reliable enough for broad commercial use.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. Just get your numbers into a Google sheet so you can work with them easily. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! And how much will it cost to win them? Finally, review the numbers with your partners.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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How to Get Busy People to Take Action When You Send an Email

Both Sides of the Table

Yet some simple techniques can help massively improve your ability to get people to take action on your important emails. On my most important ones I spend as much time figuring out what to cut out as I do putting into the writing of it. Write to one person at a time. And they will appreciate it, too. It’s called ToutApp.

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Apple is opening a store in downtown LA’s nearly 100-year-old Tower Theatre

TechCrunch LA

The theater has actually been largely unoccupied since 1988, which clearly meant even more work had to go into shining up the walls and making the grand old theater presentable for that modern retail vibe — not to mention a seismic upgrade to help make it more earthquake proof. Image Credits: Apple. local time on Thursday, June 24.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s

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Framework Benchmarks Round 7

TechEmpower

If any Azure experts are interested in picking up that work where it exists now, please visit the GitHub repository or the Google Group for the project. This helps reduce the perceived severity of configuration problems since they can be addressed in the next run, which is only a month away. Sincere apologies if we forgot anyone!

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