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It’s Back & Better Than Ever! Announcing NextView’s Everyday Economy Virtual Accelerator

View from Seed

In that same original blog post, we also outlined the unfortunate phenomenon that occurs when the market collapses: capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Who we are.

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Small Businesses Must Make Data Privacy a Priority

Duct Tape Marketing

Internet hackers pose a credible threat to businesses and to their customers. The University of Central Florida announced earlier this year that the Social Security numbers of 63,000 individuals were compromised in a hacking incident. The American Bar Association gives a great overview of safeguarding confidential information.

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Home-Based Businesses – A Look Back In Time To 1985 And Beyond

YoungUpstarts

There wasn’t any internet or sending documents to clients via email back in the 80’s; it all required the physical transfer from person to person. I’m in Florida.) Back in the day, even when you had clients and friends, you pretty much had to wing it when it came to learning, sharing and networking. Life was grand!

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. It’s a cliche that one of the most important benefits of attending an elite university is the network.

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Future of TV: The Quick Version

Both Sides of the Table

I’m still planning to write some in depth pieces on the topic but I thought, “given that this is about how video will consume the Internet over the next 5 years, what better way to exemplify this than with a 10-minute video.” Yes, it’s lower quality than network, primetime television. And lots of it.

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16 Companies That Care… And How They Show It

YoungUpstarts

The Internet giant has publicly committed itself to “playing a positive role in every community we are a part of around the world.” For instance, it has helped the town of The Dalles, Oregon (the location of one of its data centers), implement a free downtown WiFi network, and it has donated $8.6 Rosenblum’s.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

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