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Celus, which uses AI to automate circuit board design, raises $25.6M

TechCrunch

Just about every electronic contraption you care to think of contains at least one printed circuit board (PCB), which serves to house and connect the various components that allow the device to function as a whole. Engineers save a massive amount of time through this, meaning they can experiment, try different things, and be creative.”

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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. Remember that actors, artists, athletes, and executives work in cycles.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

New York has quickly become one of the best places in the world to start a company, but if you look at demographics, Brooklyn is a unique area whose innovator and maker population outnumbers most other cities in the country. With the release of iCloud, that's less of an advantage now than it used to be.

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Eight Ben Franklin TechCelerator Finalists Chosen from Erie, Pennsylvania!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

These eight finalists, all located around Erie Pennsylvania, have innovative ideas that they will be working to enhance over the next 10 weeks, with help from Ben Franklin’s experienced business coaches. Hikes and Hose uses highly sustainable and durable outdoor gear products from recycled fabrics and firehose.

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IdeaPAD case study: How do you define and build value for an existing product?

Paul G. Silva

The product was useful to their business as a marketing and operations tool, but they wanted to build it into something more. Paul Silva built the IdeaPAD during years of working with students and companies in innovation and entrepreneurship. PAD P urpose: Why innovate? Paul Silva then facilitated the discussion.

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Never Raising, Always Raising

Tomasz Tunguz

Startups used to raise once every 18 months. Venture capitalists and boards used to value a company every 18 months. We, as an industry, are marking-to-market much more frequently than we used to. Facing scarce access to startups, but bountiful billions burning a hole in our wallets, investors are innovating.

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An Early Investor's Postmortem of The Wing

This is going to be BIG.

Ambition should get rewarded if you’re trying hard to innovate in difficult areas—and gender equality is certainly one of the most difficult problems we have. It always made more sense as a way to mix it up away from another workspace you were more anchored to—the “third place”. A great board member helps you catch your blind spots.