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Informavore: What Vegas Can Teach Entrepreneurs

Austin Startup

This mecca for any and all surveillance has aggregated some of the most interesting behavioral data around, and helped unearth two decision fallacies we as humans often fall victim to – the gamblers’ fallacy and the hot hand. Vegas is the most common scene of these surprisingly well-known crimes to the self.

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Tesla Is Not A Car Company

Austin Startup

This may increase transportation use in aggregate, but it will accelerate the percentage of trips made using electric rather than internal combustion engines. Tesla just announced that it has achieved $125/kWh at the Gigafactory 1 in Nevada. Self-driving cars and electric are self-reinforcing in the long run.

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Green Garage is a new kind of garage that makes car s gentler on the planet and easier on the wallet.

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Green Garage is a new kind of garage that makes car s gentler on the planet and easier on the wallet.

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Is the House Crowdfunding Bill Being Killed in the Senate?

Scott Edward Walker

The first bill, called the “Democratizing Access to Capital Act of 2011,” was introduced by Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts and has four drastic differences with the House bill: The Brown bill only permits the issuance of securities through a “crowdfunding intermediary”; accordingly, startups would not be permitted to raise funds via social networking (..)

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