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I agree with Michael Jackson: “Most accelerators (and startup studios) are rubbish” — with very few positive examples. These examples of good, bad and ugly are shared behind closed doors by many founders. I usually ask the following questions to find out: 1) what did you learn? 2) who did you meet? 3) did they actively enable your funding round? Usually funding is the most important reason for joining an accelerator program. Looking at MENA - can someone vote for the best accelerator they would recommend including the reasons. Use the comments section. 👉 Looking for more insights on venture building and inspiring leadership? Follow me: https://lnkd.in/dErUm4Sr 🌟 DM or ping me if you need advice on: • Venture and digital factory building • Modern, servant leadership • Tech scaling Like and Share if you feel this post adds value!

Once a mighty instrument of the Cold War, the Apollo missions and the explosion in affordable personal computing, Intel has somehow lost its way. A mix of hubris — they were arrogant in dismissing the rise of Japan in semiconductor lithography and the Far East in other aspects of chip manufacturing as chronicled brilliantly in Chris Miller’s Chip War — and a failure to innovate. Likewise, Apple under Cook seems more interested in financial engineering, borrowing $17 billion for share buy backs that inflate market value but deflate investment in innovation, than in engineering new products and processes. Jobs would never have made that mistake, but the rise “financialisation” has created a dangerous disconnect between the world of banking and industry ( see Rana Foroohar’s revelatory Makers and Takers : How Wall Street destroyed Main Street) I know little about Ignite ( and many other things), but it seems the kind of agile, disruptive skunk works that, if not Intel, then the US economy urgently needs as it desperately spends hundreds of billions on rebuilding its semiconductor design and manufacturing capabilities as it attemots to catch up with SE Asia and China.

Silicon Valley chip developer, Rivos Inc., cofounded by Belli Kuttanna, and Mark Hayter, Puneet Kumar, raises $250 million post-Apple lawsuit! The oversubscribed round, led by Matrix Venture Capital Management, saw participation from Intel Capital, Cambium Capital, CIDC, Hotung Group, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Venturetech Alliance LLC, and more! Read the full article in the #news section on colaeb.com

It was a great honor to host an Icons dinner with Shaun Maguire, a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Thanks so much Shaun for sharing your insights with us. This was an epic conversation and one of our best Icons dinners ever. Thanks also to Asset Abdualiyev and Asror Arabjanov for hosting us at Silkroad Innovation Hub and Alexander Kachaev from EffectiveSoft for sponsoring! Key takeaways from Shaun below: Growth-stage hardware and early-stage software are the two most attractive investment categories The best way to prevent war is to have strong militaries The biggest source of NVIDIA’s moat comes from their acquisition of Mellanox, which they turned into NVLink, enabling high bandwidth, low latency communication between GPUs Stablecoins will be the best way for AI agents to pay each other AI is the most transformative technology of the next decades, but we are in a bubble now You don’t learn if you don’t take risks Georgi Koreli Kelley Yuan Herman Brunborg Anirudh Reddy Mateo H. Petel Tesvara Jiang Evgeniy Zhdanov Daniel Kretzmer Wesley Rojas Heather Nguyen Akmal Paiziev Axel Durand-Allizé Nicolas Abad Laura Walk Abigail Reinhold Alex LaPolice Mo Babeker Or Zolty Daniil Eskoskin Ecem Yilmazhaliloglu David Yuan Evelyn Song Merve Ondogan Nyah Check Nikil Ravi Sukrut Oak Rohan Sinha Natalia Navas Jaggie Zhu Noah Levine

Pearls of Wisdom shared by Jensen Huang 1. 'Startups don't invest in Startups, startups don't partner with startups' 😎 2. 'Before a market exists, you still need early indicators of future success - E-I-O-F-S..I was using it all the time to give the company hope, hey we solve this problem, that problem, the markets didn't exist but they were important problems.. we want to be sustainable and the markets have to exist at some point.. that's how you solve the problem of investing into something that is very far away and having the conviction to stay on the road is to find as early as possible the indicators that you're doing the right things' ✊ 3. 'you want the company to be lazy about doing things that other people always do, can do. If somebody else can do it, let them do it. We should go select things that if we didn't do it, the world would fall apart. If I don't do this, it won't get done. That work is hard and that work is impactful, it gives you a sense of purpose' 4. 'ive cleaned more toilets than all of you combined 💩 🤢 .. you can't show me a task that is beneath me' 5. 'an organization of the past where there's a king 👑 (CEO), then you have the royal subjects/court, then you keep working your way down - eventually you have employees. Well the reason why it was designed that way is because they wanted their soldiers 💂♂️ to have as little information as possible because their fundamental purpose of the soldiers is to die in the field of battle. To die without asking questions. I only have 30,000 employees. I would like none of them to die. I would like them to question everything. So the way you organize in the past and the way you organize today is very different' 6. My personal favourite quote from Jensen : 'There are lot of things we don't control, Your job is to make a unique contribution, live a life of purpose, to do something that nobody else in the world would do or can do, to make a unique contribution so that in the event that after you're done, everybody says the world was better because you were here 😇 ' 7. 'I live my life kind of like this, I go forward 🎥 in time and I look backwards 👀 ..and the reason for that is that its easier, I would look backwards and kind of read my history..you figure out what is the end result that you are looking for and you work backwards to achieve it' 8. 'have a core belief, gut check it everyday, pursue it with all your might, pursue it for a very long time, surround yourself with people you love 😍 , and take them on that ride 🏎 ' ps : I learned a lot about generative AI, he broke it down into packets of jargon an ignoramus like me can finally grasp it 😂

Interesting This Week in Startups podcast to listen to with your morning coffee and hear the thoughts on where the market is now and what it means for the coming year. #startups #startuplife #venturecapital #coffeethoughts Bill Gurley Brad Gerstner Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups

A 2-minute summary of my article published in The Quantum Insider. The topic is the vital mind shifts DeepTech Startup Founders must make to be successful in commercialization. https://lnkd.in/e_rDmG7F

For all AI enthusiasts, the upcoming webinar between SVV and Nvidia "Turning Great AI Technology into a Great AI Business," is a must-watch. #AI #AITechnology

💬 NVENTURES SPEAKS! 💬 I had the chance to interview Mohamed (Sid) Siddeek, the head of NVIDIA's VC investing arm NVentures on the DAY the chipmaker became the world's most valuable company. We spoke about the firm's approach and how the team is coping with the blockbuster popularity of its parent. My latest in PitchBook! https://lnkd.in/gPbSieQe

The Ukrainian startup Haiqu backed by SID Venture Partners, co-founded by Sigma Software Group's leaders, has been highlighted in an article on Sifted for its innovative work in the quantum computing field. 🌍 Haiqu is making significant strides in error mitigation, a key to unlocking more efficient quantum computing. Their work enhances the performance of quantum computers by reducing the resources needed to run complex algorithms. Their global presence, with teams in the UK, Switzerland, Ukraine, the US, and Canada, showcases the international interest in their solutions. 🌐 To learn more about Haiqu and other promising quantum startups in Europe, check out the full article on Sifted: https://lnkd.in/dTi6dT_6 #Haiqu #QuantumComputing #EuropeanStartups #Innovation #SIDVenturePartners #Sifted