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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. The idea of aggregation is powerful in a world where your social communications are fragmented and increasingly hard to manage. Team Pip.io

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

Aggregators? Government and university sites? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. With a little help from some existing resources I've managed to build a new formula to help automatically categorise keywords based on the users intent… ?? ?? ?? In SERPs, Google shows its hand.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. When recruiting was hard the functional managers started looking at 2.8-9s. GPA or better. HR would rarely even circulate less than a 3.2

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Startup Shootaround: Inside a VC Team Meeting on the Drones Hype

View from Seed

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. We definitely see continued growth in impact investing beyond what’s captured in the survey,” GIIN CEO Amit Bouri told Karma. “I

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

I also think it is a reflection of an entire generation waking up to the fact that they can create something themselves, and it is no longer about following a path set by our parents, the government or the declining industrial powers that be. We are also seeing lots of backwards and forwards vertical integration. Bring it on.