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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Tonight’s event at the 5A5 Steak Lounge in San Francisco was even better. The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor.

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Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference

Software By Rob

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The key take-away is that product differentiation is how you make money, and neutralization (keeping up with your competition) is how you stay in the game. An excellent presentation from a brilliant guy.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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The rise of native advertising: Fine or farce?

The Next Web

Ink-stained print media have used native advertisement in the form of advertorials for years. Plus, native advertising is seen as a reassuring revenue stream for upstart publishers, with 57 percent of investors say they are likely or very likely to invest in a company that sells native ads, according to Solve Media.

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Box launches Box Accelerator as its COO reflects on working with young entrepreneurs

The Next Web

To confirm that the improvements in speed and stability were as it hoped, Box commissioned Neustar, a neutral provider of real-time information and analysis for the technology, telecommunications and media industries, to analyze performance against three major cloud storage providers. times faster than the closest competitor, globally, and 3.1

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Ranking — And Understanding — The World’s Top Startup Hubs [Video]

ReadWriteStart

Startups based in the region stretching from San Francisco to San Jose raise more funding, make more money and have smarter people than startups in any other place. Ecosystem Differentiation. ” The problem: Boston got sidelined in the social media game. Company Performance. Support Infrastructure.

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Out of the Crisis #10: HelixNano founder Hannu Rajaniemi on vaccines, suspending disbelief, and the power of stories

Startup Lessons Learned

Hannu has called for mass coordination between the government and the private sector to get to a vaccine faster, not a few months faster but dramatically faster. My wife and our one-year-old Vizsla dog, Neo, are holed up in Dolores Heights in San Francisco. How do we differentiate self from non-self?

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