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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

Both Sides of the Table

Or maybe you’re trying to dramatically change the way TV is consumed, like Boxee or TV advertising works on the Internet, like Hulu. The fact that they can be both an economic engine and a driver for social change is awesome. But be sure that along your ascent they’re going to notice you and respond.

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering.

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Foursquare? A Bakery?

Growthink Blog

Sure, these new breed Internet companies far more often than not flame out than make it but, but ignore them at your peril as they will continue to be the big growth stories of our age. And now Groupon and a host of others that of Twitter. Growing Globally Has Never Been Easier.

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The Interview, Censorship, Terrorism, Dr. Evil, and Lots of Other Stuff

Feld Thoughts

He’s decided that the North Korea hack on Sony Pictures was not an act of war but is now trying to decide if it’s terrorism so he can put North Korea on the terrorism sponsors list to join Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. Let’s start with the cable industry’s darkest fears if the Internet becomes a utility.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

And while DataSift is a provider of multiple real-time data feeds, I would like to be clear that Twitter is by far the most important and dominant of the real-time publicly available data that exists on the Internet today, which is why today’s bet for me is on the Twitter ecosystem. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

techcrunch.com

Here’s the problem, as laid out by Goodman: The Internet has democratized the job application process, and that’s not entirely a good thing. Then Bright’s 15 data scientists and engineers looked at those results, as well as other activity on the site, to create a generalized scoring algorithm. Crunchboard.

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