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

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The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

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In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. From the day I started till very recently (aka December 31, 2012), I can literally count the days when I have slept solid eight hours.

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