Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Please stop the AI Confidence Theater – by Elena Verna
Look: I work at an AI company. I use AI all day. I strategize with it. I build products with it. I write with it. I analyze data with it. But even I feel like everyone else has cracked the AI code while I’m still using some basic tutorial version over here.
How Airship empowers brands to score during the World Cup | Airship
To process these immense traffic spikes and deploy personalized, relevant campaigns without delivery lag, leading sports and media apps like M6 and OneFootball run on Airship. In fact, more than 50 brands use Airship to power their multi-channel, real-time connections with their fans. Our mobile-first CX platform delivers the mission-critical reliability teams trust when brand reputation, fan engagement, and real-time revenue are on the line.
Policymakers Must Act Urgently on Prosperity Council Report – Oregon Business & Industry
Frankly, none of the recommendations offered by the Governor’s Prosperity Council are new. Thus, they shouldn’t surprise Oregon’s elected leaders. Nor should they require more time to ponder.
Discover the Metro Region Innovation Hub – Online Info Session | Metro Region Innovation Hub
Are you an entrepreneur, community leader, or simply curious about fostering innovation in the Portland metro region? Join us for an engaging Online Information Session to learn about the Metro Region Innovation Hub!
Oregon ArtsWatch’s 15th anniversary: An origin story • Oregon ArtsWatch
Oregon ArtsWatch first saw the light of day on July 2, 2011, fifteen years ago today. It was an audacious enterprise brought to life by its founder: writer and editor Barry Johnson. Beginning in 2011, Johnson built an unprecedented nonprofit arts publication by empowering and encouraging writers. In the first of a series of stories celebrating ArtsWatch’s growth and history, Brian Libby takes a look at the beginning of things.
Chip industry group warns US government against interventionist approach to memory chip shortage – DCD
“While targeted policies can support accelerating domestic supply resilience, interventions that distort pricing or capacity decisions risk prolonging the demand downturn,” SEMI said in its July 1 letter, a copy of which has been seen by Bloomberg News. “Current market conditions are being addressed through investments in American manufacturing and an increasing focus on long-term purchase agreements.”
Half-baked product
The founder has it all figured out: the problem was never the plan. The problem was the execution. He needs another engineer.
Everyone wants to think they’re open-minded – here’s why most people aren’t
As a social psychologist, I research big questions, such as what makes life meaningful and the nature of humility. I’ve had a long-standing interest in why people are so resistant to changing their cherished core beliefs. After all, isn’t it better to remain open-minded when you may be wrong or can’t know for certain?
The New SaaS Playbook for the AI Agent Era
The founders who internalize that and build for the world after the rewrite instead of defending the one before it, are the ones who will own the next decade of enterprise software.
Engineering the operating model – Jim Grey on software management
Engineering organizations do not exist to produce code. They exist to create customer and business value through software. That means the job of engineering leadership is not to maximize activity, utilization, story points, sprint velocity, or lines of code. Those can all rise while value stays flat or even declines. The job is to maximize the value engineering teams create.
How to ask for help from people who don’t know you
No matter what you’re doing, from building a civilization on Mars to getting a summer internship, you will have to ask people for help. Yet, most people get this crucial skill wrong. They put themselves at the front of their request, when they should be putting the other person there. But isn’t getting help just charisma and luck? No, asking for help is a skill, not an attribute you are assigned at birth like green eyes.
Understanding is the new bottleneck
Well, turns out this is not the first time anyone has ever thought about how to communicate understanding. I think we can look to education as an inspiration. Can we steal the best ideas ever invented for education and apply them to this problem?
Here’s how Oregon is celebrating America’s 250th year of independence • Oregon Capital Chronicle
“There’s projects that honor veterans, there are projects that promote civics and history education, there’s projects that honor Oregon’s tribes, of course, who were here long before 1776,” Tymchuk said. “Oregon’s official state motto is, ‘she flies with her own wings,’ and this proves that right. There’s just so many unique ideas that the commission was proud to support.”
(2019) Willamette Week surveys the Portland startup community about the health of the Oregon startup ecosystem
Going into the long weekend, I thought you could use some longer form stuff to read. And clearly, I’m never going to find the time to write it. So I’m going to give you someone else’s content. Like Willamette Week which just published a cover story on the current state of Oregon startups and the infrastructure that seeks to support them.
Oregon semiconductor industry at risk, state report says – Portland Business Journal
The 51-page report for Business Oregon said the state is “at risk of becoming an insignificant stakeholder” as an expected surge in computer chip-related investment locates elsewhere in the coming decade.