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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. It’s a wonderfully compelling idea, but it’s a little like video streaming in 1994: the hardware simply isn’t there yet. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time. Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.)

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps. When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere. Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21, Part 1: Kathy Ku and Orin Herskowitz

Steve Blank

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Kathy Ku , executive director of Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing. From 1994-98, Kathy was responsible for Stanford’s Sponsored Projects Office. She took a break from Stanford in 1990 and 1991, as VP of business development at Protein Design Labs , Inc.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The biggest strategic mistake Silicon Valley and TechCrunch, Forbes, New York Times attempting to portray tech innovation as a white guy thing was failing to recognize technology only goes as far as the adopting ecosystem. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech. Natural Language.

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables. Applications.

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Why Having A BHAG Is Critical To Your Company’s Success

YoungUpstarts

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. What’s a BHAG?