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“What’s the proof?” demands the lanky man at the front of the room. “We’ve got the idea. But do you have a proof point? Did you sell anything? We saw that not only with you, but generally across the whole…
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The promise and perils of AI are a hot topic among experts worldwide. Will it improve our lives? Take our jobs? What about ethics? Last week in San Francisco there was a rare opportunity to hear a radically different view…
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Inspired innovation often requires relocating (at least temporarily) to a fresh place and adopting a new mindset where you can see and act on real pain. Last week, thirty-six international MBA students attending USF’s Silicon Valley Immersion Program flew 10,000…
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The San Francisco Bay Area is not in a bump and not in a slump. We’re somewhere in the middle, above the national average of 3% GDP growth last year, after a massive tax cut, trillion-dollar deficits, and low interest…
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