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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

If you’re talking to a funding source not listed in this article, it’s important to ask them whether they are writing checks for new investments. Don’t see a firm in this article that should be? Click here if you think we missed any capital sources or some of the data is incorrect.

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Net and VC Loyalty

BeyondVC

Robert Scoble has asked the VCs to respond to an eWeek article titled Is.Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty? There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains. Nothing has changed since then.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

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Lacking vertical alignment, all of the frameworks were technically half grids. Fundamentally, frameworks resemble table-based layout of yore: Horizontal rows divided into vertical blocks. In a separate stylesheet, though, it includes styles to manage a site’s baseline, or vertical grid. ✉ Related Articles.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. Reply Ken Chow , on June 18, 2009 at 12:13 pm Said: Steve, What a joy to see you finally sharing all your terrific stories and aphorisms in this blog. Just so you know, it helped immeasurably.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Review article. Review article. Size, style, and vertical spacing in the legibility of small typefaces. Counters are the “negative spaces” inside a character. Ascenders and descenders.

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Banner Ads Suck (and How to Make Them Convert Better)

ConversionXL

Jakob Nielsen opened up about un-ethical design practices for getting clicks on ads in his article on banner blindness. In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding: users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons. With these in mind came the advent of native advertising.