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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) Since we had gotten out of the software business when we came out of Chapter 11 , and our sales channel didn’t know what to do with software, we licensed ReelTime to Adobe. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When my co-founder and I began brainstorming company names, we knew we needed the word ‘influence’ in our name. The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. After college, I spent years working in software engineering and data analysis incorporate, but I was never satisfied.

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SX Startups: wrnch Expands Interaction

Austin Startup

We have a just right blend of deep learning, video game tech and software engineering. We are team of hard-core engineers who live to build deep computer vision technology, but the real magic for us is when creative teams use what we have developed to create interactive experiences the world has never seen before.

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