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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J. Darius Bikoff, who distributed his enhanced drinks to health food stores, independent retailers and mom-and-pop stores in the New York area. The idea took off and Bikoff responded to the success by expanding the drinks to national distribution. Yankee Candle Company.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

I last wrote about the iPhone in November 2007 when my wife and her friends started getting iPhones.    Through various forms I have been involved from an investment perspective in wireless-related companies since 1996 when I made an investment in a company called AirMedia. 

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. Less than 20% of IPO’s <$50MM.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. So from day one, my knowledge about how to do a startup was zero. They may [.].

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” Copyright © 2007-9 by J. Copyright © 2007 - 2011 infoChachkie.

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Favorite Longreads of 2012

abovethecrowd.com

Technically, this article was published in 2011, but that should not stop it from being further distributed. Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse (originally published in 2007) is offered as premium content behind the Longreads subscription wall. If you want your venture to succeed, it must succeed as a business – eventually.