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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: New Assessment Tool For Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

MyTab Next, Heddi Cundle from San Francisco, California, discussed MyTab , an online gift-registry of sorts to raise money for travel. Green Earth Aerogels At age 16, kids have very different career counseling needs than they do at 18 kids. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural. Looking at the green and yellows of the farms, I realized that my life lacked the same colors. How did I miss that?

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

We can make green, yellow, orange, red, and everything in between, simply by changing the size of these particles. Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. Plants love it.

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Go Anywhere, Get Anything

Reid Hoffman

The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. Like Cornershop the grocery side: we thought grocery is a great vertical for us to go after, and it’s there in Latin America. And that is a great entrepreneurial setup.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. Today, the company produces low carbon footprint fruits and vegetables and sells to distributors in California, Nevada and Arizona.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. After Northern California and Southern California the biggest area of investment geographically was in international companies. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. hmmm- Amazon S3=?

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

Then I would return back north to the much drabber green palette of bombers and uniforms and continue to defend democracy. While it seemed a bit incongruous, it was fun listening to my friends in graduate school over dinner worrying about grades and jobs.