Tag Archives: innovation

The Twilight of Venture Capital?

January 9, 2009 – 11:16 pm

Former Enterprise Partners VC Bill Stensrud bows out of the business, saying for all to hear that the entire venture capital industry has outgrown its usefulness. With charts of dwindling IPOs and the discussion of a lack of new tools, I thought he was telling us that innovation in 2009 was dead, or that the [...]

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Four-legged DARPA robot trots into uncanny valley

March 18, 2008 – 4:08 pm

DARPA-funded quadruped robot BigDog has officially descended into the uncanny valley.
Congrats to DARPA for fifty years of disruptive technology development. The DARPA scientists I have met and worked with have to a person been fascinating individuals working on very tough problems. I don’t always support the military end goal that DARPA projects seek to achieve, [...]

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