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Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth Says Video Games Were What Hooked Him On Tech

Hunter Walker

As a longtime Facebook engineering leader and now Meta’s new CTO, Andrew Bosworth has been at the center of many decisions Facebook/Meta made in the last decade, so I decided to ask him Five Questions. My sense is that many people in our industry are fundamentally shaped by what tech meant for them as kids. It felt like magic.

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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept.

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The Energy Revolution is (Finally) Here

Version One Ventures

Today, the cost of solar is ~2-5 cents / kWh with many bids for new utility scale projects coming in at less than 2 cents (e.g. cents / kwh in New Mexico ). . 3) Innovation in Financial Engineering . Fortunately, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of innovation around financial engineering and deployment models.

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NMSU NSF I Corps Team Pivots from Bullet Proof Backpacks to Improved Helmets #concussion #NSF #ICORPS

Campus Entrepreneurship

Nice story from New Mexico State University highlighting its participation in the NSF Innovation Corps — “Researcher teams with student” reads the headline. The I-Corps program and activities prepare scientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory and broaden the impact of their projects.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress. The state of New Mexico has many supportive programs from tax credits, to capex funding, and technical assistance from the national labs. Solar cells like near-infrared light best, and plants prefer yellow/orange/red.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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