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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

The practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless. Could we produce this at cost? Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? It turns out that while she had the right idea the materials needed some reworking to come in at the cost structure required to build a business at scale.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Sapient

Austin Startup

Instead, an idea for smart outlets, conceived while he was still a student at University of Pennsylvania, evolved into Sapient Industries, based in Philadelphia, Penn., Long Range Wide Access Network (LoRaWAN) technology, more frequently known as “LoRa.” and launched in April 2017.

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20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industry With The Most Optimist Future

Hearpreneur

Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. 2-Technology. The upcoming decade 2020-2030 is going to be the decade of the Technology Industry, some experts coined the TECHADE. Trends that could spur investments in Technology.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. And as more economies worldwide seek to shift their investment strategies offshore and seek out technology, hubs like Silicon Valley and Shanghai, among others, have reaped the benefits. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

YoungUpstarts

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying.