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Why Now Is The Right Time For New Green Technology

YoungUpstarts

Take a look through the history of recent technological innovations: Beside the glowing milestones of smartphones and hybrid cars, you’ll find a more subdued narrative. Numerous factors must combine to create the perfect timing for a piece of technology to arrive in the market and succeed. The Rise of Green Technology.

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Clayton Christensen

Steve Blank

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. His message was that existing companies are great at sustaining technologies and products but were ignoring the threat of disruption. Christensen explained it wasn’t that existing companies didn’t see the new technologies/ products/ markets. Eye Opening.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) Diego was smarter than me.

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Congratulations IndexTank!

K9 Ventures

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. So Diego did what only a hacker who loves music can do — as a side project he built a search engine for MP3s – (2look4.com) Diego was smarter than me.

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like). Today’s search engines are no longer about the web. Fast forward 16 years. I’ll stop here.

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. immersive technologies have come so far in the past year. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards? How long has this event been going on?

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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