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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. These costs are largely fixed. This article was first posted in The Financialist.].

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Reason One: Software is Eating the World. Not likely.

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

San-Diego, California-based GoFundMe essentially is a crowdfunding platform that lets someone collect donations for a personal cause or a life event. But crowdsourcing donations, however – like trying to raise funds for victims of a natural disaster or a child fighting cancer – has been near impossible.

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Solving Hard Problems: Traptic’s Harvesting Robots

K9 Ventures

Traptic’s mission is to save the world’s food production from a crippling labor shortage using robotic farm machines and therefore allow our society to expand food production in a sustainable and cost-effective manner. Well, because the labor cost for harvesting strawberries in the US exceed $800 million annually.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

He presented a system where your search results would be ranked based on companies bidding for placement and where merchants would be charged on a “cost per click” basis (CPC). It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Their shipping costs will eat up any money they save. Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based Virgin Atlantic – airlines are cool.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

The reason why many have started using the debt note, is because with no complications, an average convertible debt deal can be sealed with a five to seven page legal agreement that takes just a few hours to finish, and costs $5,000 or less. San Francisco, California. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Crunch With Us. Follow @TechCrunch.

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