Your curated selection of the most recent startup industry news and trends is hot off the press! A brief summary on product development, management insights, AR/VR/AI  news and a shortlist of the most notable upcoming events. Follow our Facebook and LinkedIn pages not to miss the next issue!

PRODUCT

• Amazon adds an AR shopping feature to its iOS app
• How we Bootstrapped our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability
  
• Behind Silicon Valley’s Top VC Firm With Sequoia’s Pat Grady
• A Startup That Pivoted Twice and Still Succeeded
• Why Uber is the Revenge of the Founders
• 10 Lessons Learned from a Failed Side Project
• User Investment: Make Your Users Do the Work
• How to Build a Self-Conscious AI Machine
• Blockchain Will Keep Growing Even After the Bans, Chinese AI Startup

MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• 9 things that I learnt from the most successful non-tech founders
• Google Thought The Key to Effective Management Was Technical Expertise
• What Elon Musk Taught Me About Growing A Business
• Swedish CEO: Amazon is expanding to Sweden within 12 months – “Then we’re all dead”
• How Israeli Entrepreneurs Build Mentor Networks
• Pitching your early stage startup

HOT STUFF: VR / AR / AI / IoT

• VR Display Technique Saves The Stomach By Exploiting The Eye’s Limits
• Google Releases Jorge Gutierrez’s VR Short ‘Son of Jaguar’ on HTC Vive
• How To Stop Worrying And Love The Great AI War Of 2018
  
• Intel and Facebook Are Collaborating on Artificial Intelligence Technology
• Now There’s an IQ Test for Siri and Friends
• Put Humans at the Center of AI
• Does regulating artificial intelligence save humanity or just stifle innovation?
  

EVENTS

The USA

• Dreamforce, 6 Nov, San Francisco
• EVENTtech, 13 Nov, Las Vegas
• DX Summit, 13 Nov, Chicago
• Tech Up For Women, 14 Nov, New York City
• Scale By the Bay, 15 Nov, San Francisco
• The Brand Safety Summit, 16 Nov, New York
• Amazon re:Invent, 27 Nov, Las Vegas
• Telco Data Analytics USA, 28 Nov, Palo Alto

Europe

• Web Summit, 6–9 Nov, Lisbon, Portugal
• Global Entrepreneurship Week, 13–19 Nov, many cities
• hub.berlin, 28 Nov, Berlin, Germany
• Slush, 30 Nov-1 Dec, Helsinki, Finland
• Silicon Milkroundabout, 25-26 Nov, London, the UK
• NOAH Conference London 2017, London, the UK
• Big Data LDN 2017, 15-16 Nov, London, the UK
• European Women in Technology, 8 Nov, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• NetApp Insight, 13 Nov, Berlin, Germany
• Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, 20 Nov, Frankfurt, Germany