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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Though it’s incredibly valuable to be an early adopter of 2012′s tech trends, it won’t hurt your company to be right on time with everyone else who is just discovering them now. I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs the following question: What tech trends are you watching closely in the second half of 2012?

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. This has been a very welcome addition. I frequently hear critics saying, “yeah, but you can’t monetize on YouTube.”

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. These days I find myself doing less.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

. ” Devotees to the “culture-as-brand” school of startup are loathe to admit that there’s sometimes a downside to too many company-wide discussions — namely that they can fall off the rails. ” Page obliged and in July 2012, he advised his teams to scale back and focus on core products like Android.

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? This could include anything from a clever domain name in the coveted.com TLD to issued patents or patent applications that could serve as barriers to entry for potential competitors. In the mean time, best wishes for a safe, happy and healthy 2012.

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

YoungUpstarts

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Note to Chinese Communist party – the best name for your propaganda department should probably not be the “Propaganda Department.”).

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