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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

Breonna Taylor : Shortly after midnight on March 13, Louisville police, executing a search warrant, used a battering ram to crash into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency room technician. For those that don’t know, I live in downtown Oakland which has been one of the protest flashpoints.

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About Bans on Face Recognition Technology

Austin Startup

This year, Oakland and San Francisco, California, and Somerville, Massachusetts, all banned the government’s use of facial recognition technology and others are ‘pausing’ its use. People are supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty and this seems like an unreasonable search. Standard caveat?—?I I am not a lawyer.)

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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How to Build a Startup Team

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Today the capstone class is most often experiential, team-based, hands on, focused around the search for a repeatable and scalable business model. And as part of that we’ve developed a set of tools that could be used to search for business models. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class.

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Market Opportunity From Customer Hostility, Exhibit 802.11: Airline WiFi

Gust

On a mission now, I invoke the mysterious powers of a search tool and finally uncover electronic bill payment records that contain the actual full account number and expiration date of one of my cards. The laptop affords access to all of the right records if I can locate them and remember the password(s). Foiled again!

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I did a lot of soul searching about what inspired me. Then, I Googled my potential business name to determine the context of it and to ensure it wasn’t so generic that I could never rank for specific searches of it. I did a lot of research into my target client’s lifestyle, likes, dislikes, habits.

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