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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

Almost 30 years ago, my father decided to uproot the entire family from Taiwan to the United States so that his academically “inconsistent” son could have an education tolerant and perhaps even encouraging of his idiosyncrasies. Los Angeles, at least metaphorically, became more of a media/entertainment town.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

io domains belong to the Internet artisans… at least that’s the vibe it has. We’ve managed to turn this little island in the Indian Ocean into a brand for the people who are making the Internet.”. Hoping to become the “Kickstarter for Independent Media”, IndieVoic.es and wrangler.io , says, “.io A good luck charm, perhaps?

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[Asia][Event] Echelon 2013 Agenda, Speaker Lineup And Pitching Startups Revealed

YoungUpstarts

Last week its organizers, tech media and events platform e27 , finally announced its full speaker lineup, agenda and the participating startups pitching for the title of Echelon 2013′s Most Promising Startup. POP (Taiwan). TopAdmit (Taiwan). WayGo (Taiwan). Young Upstarts is a media partner of Echelon 2013.

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When Small Businesses Meet Big Opportunities

YoungUpstarts

In China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Taiwan, exporting SMEs are roughly twice as likely to report such rapid growth compared to their non-exporting counterparts, while exporting SMEs in Brazil, Colombia and India are between 1.1-1.3 times more likely to achieve rapid growth. A shared imperative.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

A Taiwan outfit created a c lanaguage interface to EEMS which worked, but I had to speed it up by a factor of 4 by rewriting what they did. I am the co-founder of Underratedsites.com Posted by: Sarah | September 10, 2007 3:08 PM I dont see why owning your own server equipment makes much sense for perhaps 80%-90% of Internet companies.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Programs/applications can be games, social media, office applications, missile guidance systems, bitcoin mining, or even operating systems e.g. Linux, Windows, IOS. Billions of computers, digital devices and sensors connected to the Internet, producing and storing large volumes of data, which provide other sources of intelligence.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. If you hear groveling at any point today, it’s likely remnants of Pandora execs speaking in front of Congress yesterday, where the company begged for legislation to lower music licensing fees for Internet radio. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising.