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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

ithacaVC

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games). The reason I have generally been against convertible debt is that historically it was a mechanism that avoided price.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Consider Emerging Markets for Your Global Expansion

Transformify

A country that is in the process of moving from a developing to a developed stage is considered an emerging economy or market. But today, these nations with rapid economic development have a growing impact on the world economy and are responsible for driving more than 50% of world economic growth.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Don’t be psyched out by your competitors big financing round, latest product release or business development deal.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. And we all would have paid many vigorishes in the meanwhile.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Years ago, Six Apart invited me to be a part of some kind of developers program without telling me what it is. Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made.

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