Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. “We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

But now we’ve also launched our Wolfram Open Cloud —so that anyone anywhere can start learning computational thinking with the Wolfram Programming Lab , using the Wolfram Language. To get enough precision to be able to get definite results one would end up with something like very elaborate and incomprehensible legalese.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

You can sign up here. Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. .

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

Maybe, before phones can get smarter, software engineers have to get smarter. What made the original iPhone so groundbreaking was a remarkable convergence of hardware and software innovation. The combination opened up so many possibilities that app builders have now spent the better part of a decade exploring them.

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