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A Waymo rider-only robotaxi is seen during a test ride in San Francisco, California, U.S., December 9, 2022. Paresh Dave | Reuters Despite General Motor’s decision to shutter its Cruise robotaxi business earlier this month, the U.S. has never been closer to a driverless future. For the autonomous vehicle industry, 2024 will be remembered as […]
This is How I Got Here, a series where we chart the career journeys of technologists. Want to tell your story? Get in touch. It took 12 years for Grace Francisco to work her way through college. A software developer by training who pioneered advances before becoming an angel investor and advisor, Francisco is the […]
Want to launch a startup but have no idea how to fund it? The first step is learning to speak the language — and Technical.ly is here to help. While we report on all kind of organizations as they pertain to local tech economies, from established corporations to nonprofits to government and more, a lot […]
I played poker professionally before I ever wrote about politics or built an election model. What really fascinates me about gambling is the mindset that drives this behavior—a way of thinking that unites a cohort I call “the River.” The River is a sprawling ecosystem of like-minded people that includes everyone from low-stakes poker pros […]
As raising venture capital becomes increasingly difficult, Washington DC is launching its own fund to generate more growth within the city limits, district leaders announced Monday. DC will now run a $26 million VC fund, following neighbors Maryland and Virginia in setting up its own means of investment for early-stage companies. Called the DC Venture […]
The Hong Kong government’s two-year-old investment arm is mounting an aggressive and wide-ranging deal-making push to bolster innovation, putting money into as many as 80 start-ups and projects locally, in mainland China and overseas. About 36 per cent of the projects getting funding from Hong Kong Investment Corp (HKIC) are in the city, while 42 […]
Jeffrey Tiong, founder and CEO of PatSnap. Courtesy of Jeffrey Tiong. Many entrepreneurs will say that building a successful startup is costly — both financially and emotionally. Just ask Jeffrey Tiong. The 40-year-old is the founder and CEO of intellectual property and research and development startup Patsnap, a Singapore-based unicorn company that has surpassed an […]
Credit: Apex Today, Apex announced their Series B funding round, led by XYZ Ventures and CRV, with participation from Upfront. And if you spend much time in LA, you’ll quickly realize that we’re in a groundswell of space and defense startups. Is it because of the rich engineering talent coming out of Caltech, UCLA, USC, […]
Posted on May 21, 2024 by steve blank Ilya Strebulaev at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Director of the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative just came out with a book that should be on your reading list – The Venture Mindset. The books premise is that Venture Capitalists (who were responsible for the launch […]
This article first appeared in Inc. Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build […]