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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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How Digital Assistants Could Evolve in the Future

The Startup Magazine

Semantic Recognition and Conversation. Chances are, we’ll see assistants better capable of semantic and conversational recognition; they may be better at predicting and following patterns of speech, and better capable of recognizing human emotions. So where does it go from here? Emotional Content. Habit Learning and Adaptation.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Notable Aspects of Their Business: 1) Kayak’s an Ad Business More Than a Lead Gen Business : To some this may be semantics more than anything. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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Startup Culture: Values vs. Vibe

Feld Thoughts

I think of values as the guiding principles or a code-of-conduct upon which a company was founded and which it operates on a daily basis. Values establish your company’s view of the world and determine how you treat others including employees, customers, partners, and investors. to add an extra level of scrutiny to your commitment.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. So if you are techie, find a founding partner that is a hustler. If you are hustler, find a superb techie as founding partner. The technology has to be superb to get into the enterprise.

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Recent Entrepreneurial Events in Austin

entrepreMusings

The first was an Semantic Web Austin event hosting Mark Greaves from Vulcan Inc. Paul Allen’s asset management group – www.vulcan.com ) to discuss the opportunities in the semantic web space. With the Semantic Web, you can ask things like “How many white elephants are there in China who belong to people making over $10K?”

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Microsoft’s next battleground – wireless

BeyondVC

The acquisition of Tellme will bolster Microsoft’s existing speech capabilities, bringing both immediate and longer-term value to our customers and partners.”. WAP was not based on standard internet protocols, there was no competition for browsers, and operators had a stranglehold on access,” he says.