Since Alan Turing first posed the question “can machines think?” in his seminal paper in 1950, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has failed to deliver on its promise. That is, Artificial General Intelligence. There have, however, been incredible advances in the field, including Deep Blue beating the world’s best chess player, the birth […]
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You are Not Going to Believe The Latest Entry into the Cloud Storage Wars
The cloud has been a game-changer for tech entrepreneurs, in terms of helping to launch a new company way more affordable. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM – all of the big players have gotten into the game. From a small office at Cowork.rs, the Flatiron District-based coworking space, it seems that yet another player has emerged. […]
Laying Siege to a $750 Billion Dollar Castle
The venture capital firm DFJ wrote in a recent blog post: “Savvy entrepreneurs and venture investors tend to ‘think big,’ meaning…they build companies that go after big markets and especially those with incumbents that are ripe for disruption. As a venture capital investor, [what’s] on the top of my list for 2014? Enterprise software—a $120-billion-dollar […]
Startups Who Hide Early Work Only Fool Themselves
It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market. In my view, this paranoid approach […]
Digital.NYC Launches and the New York Tech Community Just Got Easier to Navigate
Ok, so we all know that New York is the center of the universe and one of the fastest growing tech hubs globally, so it was only a matter of time before the city’s tech community had a hub of its own. It’s heeere… NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio unveiled digital.NYC, a first-of-its-kind online hub […]
Startup Company Lifecycle and Culture Change Too Fast Today
Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and, unfortunately, that path all too often leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the […]
Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Startups Focused
One of the most common failures I see in startups is lack of focus. Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. Investors hear this as trying to do too many things with limited resources, meaning the startup will not shine at […]
7 Insights From the Wealthiest Women in Technology
Though this summer it seems like we have been bombarded by reports about the minority of women in Silicon Valley and the tech industry as a whole, it is great to see some success stories. Business Insider just compiled a list of the 11 richest women in technology. They are superstars to say the least. […]
Corporate VC Funds, Accelerators and Incubators
With the explosion of corporate-backed venture capital funds, accelerators and incubators in the last couple of years, I think the big companies are starting to realize: 1) how important innovation is to staying relevant (watching rapid market share losses at companies like Blackberry, Nokia and Borders, who did not respond quickly enough to competitive threats […]
IBM’s Brain-Like Microchip
IBM has developed a microchip that simulates functions of neurons, synapses and other features of the brain to perform calculations.
A New York VC Spotlight: Jalak Jobanputra
Jalak Jobanputra is a venture capitalist specializing in digital media, enterprise software, broadband infrastructure, healthcare IT, mobile & Internet – among other sectors. Jobanputra is currently a founding Partner at FuturePerfect Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund that is looking to fund “diverse group of entrepreneurs who are building applications combining relevant data and […]