Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Watch How Technology Powers Fan Experience for Game of Thrones at Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas


Technology from software to hardware helped create this amazing fan experience for Game of Thrones at the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas.
Image Engineering provided the projection hardware for the Game of Thrones video that was projection mapped to the iconic Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas. Creative Content and Event Production was handled by WET Design.

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Rookie Mistakes and Lessons From Successful Startup Founders



Rookie Mistakes
Y Combinator | January 2022

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel from Y Combinator on the importance of talking to your users, why successful founders are ok with rejection from potential customers, and how protecting your ego by not talking to your users can kill your startup.
To create Rookies Mistakes we asked YC founders: Is there a simple fact you wish you knew when you started your company or a rookie mistake you wish you could take back? 00:00:00 - Rookie Mistakes 00:00:36 - Note from YC founder 00:00:59 - Ideas vs Reality 00:01:38 - User surveys 00:02:25 - Charge for it 00:03:20 - AirBnB 00:05:27 - Twitch 00:09:35 - Note from YC founder 00:09:59 - Rejection 00:10:52 - Be scientific 00:13:13 - Note from YC founder 00:13:40 - Real customer 00:14:15 - Sales 00:15:53 - Customer validation 00:17:48 - Trade-off - Employee vs Founder


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Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence with Daniela Rus


Daniela Rus is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT with expertise on robotics.

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