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Real Estate Developer Danny Haber Of oWOW Reinvigorates Bay Area

YoungUpstarts

In 2012, the median house price in California was $300,000. oWOW’s work is supported by many high-profile individuals like the former vice mayor of Oakland, California, Annie Campbell Washington, and Elaine Brown of the Black Panther Party. Fast forward to the present, the median house price is $550,000.

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The Year of Startups Everywhere

Feld Thoughts

When the phrase “Startup Communities” started to become mainstream around 2012, I made the strong assertion that you could create a startup community in any city with at least 100,000 people. Or you can just call it San Francisco, Oakland, and the Peninsula. ” While Agent Smith was wrong, I don’t think I am.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. © 2007-2012, Xconomy, Inc. Biologist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Steve Seitz. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington. Our Events ▾ 6/14/12 · Boston. View All Xconomy Events ›. Boston Events ›. Contact Us.

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About Bans on Face Recognition Technology

Austin Startup

This year, Oakland and San Francisco, California, and Somerville, Massachusetts, all banned the government’s use of facial recognition technology and others are ‘pausing’ its use. In 2012 that practice was challenged in court. This decision is being talked about a lot and it’s easy to see why. I am not a lawyer.)

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Moneyball Design: Why the Research and Data Analysis is Critical to Getting Your Prospects to Convert

ConversionXL

It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. 2012 was the Moneyball election. . – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball? Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003. Data doesn’t lie. The interpretation might, though).

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Bean There, Done That: How Technology Is Helping Blue Bottle Coffee Serve Up A Great Cup

Hunter Walker

Satya and I visited Blue Bottle’s Oakland HQ a few weeks back and I love talking with retailers about the way technology is changing their business (such as this previous post with a SF-based bakery owner ). DB: I met James Freeman, our founder and CEO, through one of our investors in the summer of 2012.

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Market Opportunity From Customer Hostility, Exhibit 802.11: Airline WiFi

Gust

If that’s just too complex a challenge for the state of the art in 2012, how about at least accepting PayPal ? Of course it wouldn’t; that would make entirely too much sense. These things are clumsily bolted on like homemade aftermarket car accessories.

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