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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. .” The approach was clever and novel. Were they ambitious?

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Start Up and Stay Up – How Small Businesses Survive & Thrive

The Startup Magazine

Since then it has grown to serve the tri-state New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware areas, but I still consider it a small business and my employees, more like a family. Your website form should be optimized for mobile – this is how people browse these days. I started my Philadelphia area home appraising business in 2006.

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2013’s Top 10 Small Towns For Mobile Entrepreneurs

Mike Michalowicz

You have the choice to do business from anywhere, anytime, including some of the most beautiful and mobile entrepreneur friendly towns in the USA. So here you have it, the “Top 10 Small Towns for Mobile Entrepreneurs for 2013.”. And yes, it is perfect for mobile entrepreneurs. Clayton, Georgia. Clayton covers only 3.1

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

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ConnectYard Integrates Social Media Into School Communications

YoungUpstarts

Its Campus Communications solution, for example, gives institutions a way to deliver messages to students, faculty, staff, campus security, first responders and others, leveraging social media accounts, mobile phone numbers and email addresses to ensure prompt delivery of vital communications.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

We've got a bunch of people who worked on this data automation for hospitals in Pennsylvania who I think must have just worked all night on it one day because it's quite a beautiful piece of software that really helps Pennsylvania ingest and seed a lot of data that it needed to have in one place. Jen Pahlka : I hope so too.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

While at Santa Barbara’s University of California, Allison Perry teamed up with classmates Brenton Taylor and Bryon Myers to build a better, more mobile device to deliver oxygen. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. Insomnia Cookies.