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ICYMI: Google’s Self-Driving Car Project at SXSW

SiliconHills

In 2003, the U.S. Defense Department launched the DARPA Grand Challenge to have a car drive 150 miles by itself across the Mojave desert from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. That’s when Google’s Chris Ursom, director of its self-driving car project, first got involved with autonomous cars.

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

In fact, I actually spoke at a conference in Las Vegas for digital dealer. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. They were very much a luxury item. It was a different day and age. John Jantsch: Yeah, they were pretty crappy too. Matt Watson: Yeah. John Jantsch: Yeah.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA).

Developer 366
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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Others have left for Miami, Nashville, Las Vegas and other great American cities. Many don’t know that since 2003, the Texas Enterprise Fund has provided incentives for businesses that relocate to Texas and create new jobs.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

This was the first spot, the Hoover Dam in Las Vegas. It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. I went to a lot of places during this time, so it was quite incredible. Deciding to Sell.

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Transcript of Unlocking the Power of 80/20

Duct Tape Marketing

Lots of things, they just sound like good ideas, and a lot of them are based on, well, it’s really what was working in 2003, and it’s not really based on what’s going on right now. Like, amazing amounts of busy work, and it doesn’t even look like busy work on the surface. You have to be really discerning.