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Where to Find High-Quality Drone Parts and Accessories

The Startup Magazine

Electronic speed controllers regulate power distribution from the flight battery to the motors, while the flight controller acts as the drone’s computerized brain coordinating inputs and stabilizing altitude. Motors directly impact maneuverability, lift capacity, and flight times based on wattage specifications.

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Succeeding in Venture Capital as an Introvert

Hunter Walker

And I’m anticipating doing a lot of this in the places our portfolio companies are scattered: the Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Portland, San Diego, Boston, Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and so on. I do miss being near my business partner Satya. Work-life balance. Or maybe not.

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How I Started a Gluten-Free Cookie Company: With Josh Fegles of Jude’s Foods

Up and Running

” That’s what got me connected with Oregon State University’s Food Innovation Center and Portland Community College’s Small Business Development Center. The way the SBDC works is they’ll partner you up with people who have done what you’re trying to do. I googled “How do you sell a food product?”

Oregon 60
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How to Start a Brewery

Up and Running

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? Relationships.

Oregon 60
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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

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My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon. Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson. Then we put a 5X cap on the distributions. And that’s not a joke.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

Social media marketing for startups : How to use social to launch, position your messaging and get distribution. Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Narrative and Comms Design by Portland State University.