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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012. But we never lost the finance bug. We’ve been investing in cryptoassets since 2013.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. One of the unique provisions of that program was that it was open to people without any NYU affiliation; they just had to work physically at the NYU Future Labs.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development.