Renewed VC prudence hasn't slowed down innovation, but it has slowed getting that innovation through the funding machine.
I know, right now you're saying "But wait Matt, All I hear is that every hot new company in the space is based on machine learning and that VCs are funding machine learning companies in record numbers, even with the economy in question".
The War God's funding machine grinds with bipartisan inevitability.
But mention the project-funding machine Kickstarter to a group of gamers and you'll hear as many people screaming, "Kickstarter is killing board games" as people chanting, "God bless Kickstarter".
The internet simply moves the war of the parties and their funding machines, not just the battle of ideas, to a new domain.
The moral of the story is: sexual route (homo or hetero) has received undue attention and emphasis from donors than an important route of infection, that is not "sexy" to talk about and that does not bring much money into HIV/AIDS funding-machine.
It's been pretty obvious for a few months now, but Google has finally admitted that it's running its own investment fund targeting machine intelligence startups.
The outfit just raised $3 million in seed funding led by True Ventures with participation from Pantera Capital, Kindred Ventures, Homebrew, Coinbase Ventures, Wonder Ventures, Abstract Ventures and former TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis through her new fund Dream Machine.
In 2004, Mr. Bush led a Republican fund-raising machine that collected $273 million, and his chief fund-raiser, Mercer Reynolds, will be one of those leading Mr. McCain's effort.
But he was helped by his party, with the powerful Republican fund-raising machine holding three dinners to jointly benefit the party and his campaign, including some fund-raisers headed by President Bush.
