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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Flocks of Angels, and All You Need is One

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. Or does it? I’ll come back to that later.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. 14- Lack of transparency on existing products. Photo Credit: Rob Kessler.

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Everything you need to know to create the next big company in Latin America

The Next Web

From my personal experience, Latin Americans often see Internet and the tech scene as the magical potion that’ll make us more like our idealized image of North Americans. 254 million internet users (18mm ’00). 273 million internet users (108mm ’00). In 2000, there was a total of 18 million Internet users in Latin America.

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

blogs.computerworlduk.com

In case your computer industry history is lacking, WS-I is the industry consortium that got together a decade ago to create specifications for Web Services protocols (note the capitals, so as not to confuse with actual internet services that use HTTP and REST for loosely-coupled data access).

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