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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. We hired IP specialists to review prior art.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. What should be in your deck?

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games). if you need advice on how to find / work with startup lawyers cheaply click that link).

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Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup

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But I do know that FourSquare has captured the zeitgeist of what young, mobile & social people want. I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. Maybe check-ins will be automatic in the future some day or maybe people won’t care about check-ins.

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Why The Media Has Been Wrong About YouTube Networks

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Give access to music that is legal, avoiding lawsuits and ensuring revenue isn’t captured by other IP owners. Offer tools to allow content producers to build their own websites & mobile apps.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. Most won’t be of the quality that you want but you now have tons of material and inspiration for your show and you own all of the submitted IP. It will always be a milestone in the Internet, YouTube, Twitter, Mobile world etched in my memory. Is this real?

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Clients include Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile, Fox Internactive Media. ITA Software.

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