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AI is Eating Software … and Getting Smarter by the Second

How does a chicken with an AI brain cross the road? At a packed conference in San Francisco, a wizard named Danny Lange wowed investors and techies with visual proof of the fast advancing potency of artificial intelligence. The magic…

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Uber’s True Crime

Yet another bomb exploded in the series of self-detonations from Uber, with last week’s announcement that the Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the ride sharing behemoth. The onslaught of public relations disasters has been a textbook…

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UC San Diego’s Rising Tech Wave

Bright-eyed entrepreneurial undergrads, a visionary Chancellor, sundry alumni, professors, and a Facebook pioneer came together earlier this week on a packed campus pitch night. Twenty miles from Tijuana, a massive experiment in learning and experiential business education is underway. UC…

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Why Innovation is Like Popcorn

Last week, browsing the aisles of my local grocery store, I found the perfect metaphor for the entrepreneur’s peripatetic search for the three I’s – ideation, iteration, and innovation. Not in a new app or gizmo, but in a magic…

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