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Here is Why Non-Obvious Startup Ideas Can Yield the Largest Results

Both Sides of the Table

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. Innovation. It is a household name. How valuable are these legacy businesses? And they have.

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The Battle for AI Gravity

Tomasz Tunguz

” Better for large enterprises to wait until there’s a reference architecture that’s been proven to work. So AI products aren’t electric motors with one or two moving pieces, but more like the gas powered engines with many moving parts. Plus, data movement is less expensive than in the previous era.

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How to Get a CISO to Buy Your Product

Dream It

As a startup, you may not have enough customer references, but referrals from peer CISOs who have signed up as design partners or completed successful PoCs are just as valuable. Find out how incumbent products you are likely to replace are performing. Your success with another CISO will get you instant street credibility.

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Putting Data in a Corner: LLMs and Financial Services Data

Andreessen Horowitz

For new entrants looking to take advantage of the advent of LLMs and disrupt the status quo by going upstream of these incumbents, we’ve done a deep dive into Bloomberg, Morningstar, and Verisk’s stories. In doing so, each built the beginnings of what are now category-defining businesses.

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Beyond cost control: Where cloud management is going next

TechCrunch

“There’s a big wave of innovation in managing cloud costs,” Team8 co-founder and managing partner Liran Grinberg told TechCrunch as part of our latest cloud investor survey. Indeed, the tailwinds we are referring to aren’t limited to the current macroeconomic climate. Microsoft in 2017 acquired Cloudyn [ … ].

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Akeyless secures a cash infusion to help companies manage their passwords, certificates and keys

TechCrunch

Today, Akeyless is thriving, Angel tells me — despite fierce competition from incumbents like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud’s Secret Manager. In software development, “secrets” refer to credentials like passwords and access tokens. Image Credits: Akeyless.

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Expeto, a startup selling tools to manage private cellular networks, raises $13M

TechCrunch

But that hasn’t stopped new ventures from cropping up to challenge the incumbents. Demonstrating that there’s investor appetite for upstarts in the market, Expeto this week closed a $13 million Series B round led by Sorenson Capital with participation from 5G Open Innovation Lab, Samsung Next and Mistral Venture Partners.