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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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4 Deadly Legal Mistakes That Startups Make

Scott Edward Walker

IP Ownership. There are three deadly mistakes that relate to intellectual property (IP) ownership, all of which usually surface when the investors conduct their due-diligence investigation: 1. You should carefully review all employment-related agreements (e.g., Any IP created or acquired by a founder (e.g.,

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Shout Out to Seth Levine, or the In-N-Out burger startup

Scalable Startup

Currently Los Angeles is in what could be a startup renaissance or an apocalypse, dependent on how long the hype goes on. Recently there was a developer only coding party where, in a few hours, you form a team, think of an idea, then design, develop, deploy a website. I’ve been harping about this a lot (too much?)

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW. They’re doing stuff – just not enough. Seattle has its patrons.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

Restrict validation to confirming key points (such as the availability of a user name), ensuring realistic answers (such as not allowing ages above 130) and suggesting responses where the range of possible data is finite but too long to include in a drop-down menu (such as a country-code prefix). Learn more on Coding: JavaScript & jQuery.

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