Mapping the RISC-V startup ecosystem leading a new movement in computer chip design. Chances are, unless you’re already in the semiconductor industry, you probably haven’t heard of the term “RISC-V” or know what the letters stand for.
It’s incredibly tough to build a B2B startup. Founders applying novel technologies to improve traditional industries deserve nothing but our respect. Sales cycles can be slow, early stage investors can be skittish to invest without more validation, and incumbents’ intentions to compete in your space are often a constant threat.
Samiron Ray talks about investing in AI, strategies for evaluating AI startups, and why AI startups don’t fit the typical lean startup model on the Future Tech Podcast.
Arch Systems is leading the charge in bringing today’s machines into the age of intelligence. Artificial intelligence — as a technology, not a concept — is entering its design phase. In a past life, I had the opportunity to learn an important lesson about design thinking when I was founder of Stower Energy.
Today’s automation tools are boring. It doesn’t matter what the application is — playing Go, picking fruit, stacking boxes, annotating dogs on a highway — the state of the art in artificial intelligence is a bit dull and Siri’s jokes suck. As it should be! It’s taken us a long time and technological innovation to…
A couple weeks back I was talking about YC, demo days, and how it made us think through our beliefs at Comet Labs. I also brought up the concept of SoftBank’s Vision Fund as a Black Hole…
Stefan Groschupf and the SalesHero team make difficult things look easy. Exhibit A — Lots of people in San Francisco ride their bikes to work every day (myself included – watch yourself, MUNI drivers). Ben, the head of product at SalesHero, rides his bike to the office too. From Sausalito. Every day. No ferry.
I like Y Combinator, a lot. In fact, I’m kind of jealous of Y Combinator. They have an amazing team, breathtaking network, $700M — $1B+ fund (depending on who you talk to), and the top founders from infinity and beyond banging down their doors to become part of that world…
Recent AI squabbles are distracting and completely unhelpful. To our benefit and to our peril, technology has become a mantra, a hurrah–word, and often is seen as the balm to all our problems. In most environments, engineers take the stance with technology of ‘the more the better’, and ‘it’s all about how you use it’. Especially in…
Soon, AI will be taken more and more for granted as a foundational building block of technology. For future startups, that means that AI will almost certainly be essential to their solutions, and questions will be raised if it’s not. But I don’t share the view that VCs should assume every startup will use the best…