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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

Day 2 featured the consumer and social media, which were more interesting for me and much of the audience. A check-in aggregation platform. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My fears were met on Day 1 with many presentations being unpolished, several me-too ideas and a general malaise.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And so while she was at IBM, we were living in San Jose, California, where I grew up in the Bay Area. And we see it in our media too. How did it come on your radar for the first time? And yeah, I was just home for the holidays at my parents' house. BA : Yeah.

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Cracking The Code: Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends

Cracking the Code

I attended yesterday the 10th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends organized by the Churchill Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. The next wave of internet will come from companies aggregating these various data sets and leveraging them to provide more value to the user. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. Software 2.0: