You probably heard the news: IBM is buying open-source pioneer Red Hat for a whopping $34 billion, paying a 63% premium to the company’s open-market p…
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AI and Machine Learning Startups: Sell Investors on Today, Not on Tomorrow
The number of startups focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence is exploding, both in Israel and worldwide. Plenty of them come throug…
Another Open-Source IPO Shows the Market Power of “Free” Software
Last week brought more evidence that open-source software has gone mainstream—and that the IPO market for business-focused tech companies is back. Ope…
AI Startups: Here’s Your Guide to Get Beyond the Hype and Drive a Commercially Successful Business
My LinkedIn and Twitter feeds are flooded with AI news these days, as are most popular news media outlets. And with good reason: McKinsey claimed in a…
So You’re A European, B2B Startup Hoping To ‘Hop The Pond’ And Grow? Here’s How
Click here to learn how the CEO of Collibra and the CEO of Mendix successfully “hopped the pond” by scaling their companies over to the U.…
Radical Approaches to the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage
Every time a major security breach strikes, people are outraged by what they feel is the negligence and carelessness of the company responsible. “How …
The New Gold Rush: Exploring the Rise and Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Deep learning. Machine learning. Artificial intelligence. The buzzwords are swirling, along with promises of an intelligent, automated—and sometimes s…
Swipe Right For A Cloud Instance: How To Build Successful Software In A Low-Commitment World
In cities from San Francisco to New York, and Houston to Atlanta for that matter, we hear the buzz of easy, quick lifestyle choices these days. Just h…
How to Build a Business-Focused ‘Cloud-Commerce’ Marketplace for the Less-Sexy Economy
For consumers, huge new internet marketplaces have upended industries ranging from taxis (Uber) to hotels (Airbnb) and even some types of consumer loa…
Enterprise-IT Predictions for 2018: More Cloudy Skies, AI-Powered Chatbots and (Finally!) More IPOs
Many of us will remember 2017 for big, global events—huge hurricanes, continuing wars and, of course, the ascension of a certain orange-haired, former…