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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Over the next few decades, I expect forces in Washington DC to use economic and monetary policy to attempt to rebalance the trade relationship between the world’s two most dynamic countries. The shift in consumer behavior and the intensity of the Scooter demand was undeniable. Frankly, the scale of it has snuck up on the U.S.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

But, historically, they’ve undermined monetization—requiring crawler access that savvy users exploit and demanding free clicks for searchers. News is an especially challenging vertical since no site owns a newsworthy event. News sites have long been at the forefront, but plenty of speciality sites (e.g.,

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Gatekeepers are overloaded. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Real Estate Developer Danny Haber Of oWOW Reinvigorates Bay Area

YoungUpstarts

As a vertically integrated company, oWOW cuts costs which are then passed on in the form of lower rental prices to tenants. The housing crisis has resulted from an inability to meet this demand, leading to higher rental prices across the board.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of Washington. We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. UbiQD enabled this innovation with safer, cheaper, and more reliable quantum dot technology that it’s licensing from M.I.T.,

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. Take your typical scalability bottleneck.

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When National Security Falls Between the Cracks

Steve Blank

Unlike in the Cold War, advancements in areas with important national security implications come from private sector research labs and are driven by consumer demand rather than government directives. From artificial intelligence to biotechnology, U.S. national security is inexorably and increasingly intertwined with commercial technology.