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Support an Entrepreneur: Buy Local Technology

ReadWriteStart

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs. Despite its low price point (US$35), the Raspberry Pi offers impressive technical capabilities and has become popular among hobbyists, researchers, and commercial businesses. The Renault Logan.

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30 Entrepreneurs Discuss Whether or Not There Will Be More Entrepreneurs in the Future

Hearpreneur

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. There’ll be an increase in the number of entrepreneurs in the future as the world is becoming a digital hub, and tech-savvy people stand a chance. People are much more at ease with using new technology.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x But customers didn’t agree.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) Photo Credit: Christopher Michel. How did the site come about? This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook.

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Vaping: the Startup Business in 2018

The Startup Magazine

The evolution of technology brought smokers a different experience called ‘vaping’. The interest in vaping has increased exponentially in the past decade due to various factors worldwide. Since this market is relatively new, there’s room for ongoing improvement, and the vaping community will always pay for upgraded products.