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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Looxid Labs

Austin Startup

Based in Seoul, South Korea, Looxid Labs aims to integrate biometrics into the VR/AR/MR platform. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries.

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Rethinking The Words You Should Lose For Those to Use

Duct Tape Marketing

So put a vertical line down the center and on the top of the left hand column, put words to lose on top of the right hand column, put words to use. We have people, you know, in fact Tung Fu was the number three ranked book in South Korea, you know, almost 20 years after it was published. And that's when they get it.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

A year later the Korean War turned the cold war hot, as communist North Koreans attacked and overran most of South Korea (except for a small defensive perimeter in the south.) That same year China fell to the communists under Mao Zedong, and the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan. 34,000 U.S. soldiers died in battle.