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The 21st Century for Grade A Entrepreneurs
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In the wake of that Mac vs. PC infographic we showed you yesterday, there’s a lot of discussion going on here about the value and virtues of each platform against the other. To augment our discussion, we could use a panel of experts.
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As Amazon’s web services outage passed its third day, the debate on the future of cloud computing is under way. The outage is costing web sites such as Reddit and Quora considerable losses as users turn elsewhere to get their social media needs met.
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How to keep up with a fast-growing company http://is.gd/Vo09fc...
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By guest authors Irina Patterson and Vandana Upadhyay Irina: How many of these companies are technology businesses?
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This Q&A with Survivor host Jeff Probst was conducted by guest writer Narendra Rocherolle, CEO of The Start Project. He and his partners hold the curious distinction of selling their company, Webshots, twice.
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Former Engadget editor, Joshua Topolsky let loose the dogs on a potential new shift for the iPhone 5 over at ThisIsMyNext. Citing close internal Apple sources, Topolsky says the iPhone 5 will have 3.
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Unfortunately for PlayStation Network and Qriocity services users, it looks like the widespread network outages will continue.
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Veteran players of Empire Avenue say brands are now showing up http://bit.ly/dT5Mh8...
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This article demonstrates how an extraordinary Infrastructure Project that created extraordinary social value was funded using a mashup of Graph Theory and Game Theory called The Value Game (Game theory is a branch of Applied Mathematics with origins...
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Aaron Levie co-founded Box.net from his dorm room, but he quickly learned that there were some strong advantages and disadvantages to that.
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Sequoia Capital has invested ‘multiple millions of dollars’ in Milanoo.com, a China-based online retailer and wholesaler with a “passion for fashion”.
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At this year’s overcrowded and overhyped SXSW conference in Austin, one of the few startups to break through the noise was group text messaging app GroupMe. How did GroupMe win SXSW? Grilled cheese.
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The much buzzed-about smartphone app Color — which announced in March a $41 million funding round — is expanding its reach even further into the entertainment realm at the Sweetlife Festival in Maryland on May 1.
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Sony is working to improve the security of its PlayStation Network and its Qriocity music service as it works to rebuild the system and bring it back online.
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If you’re an early stage venture capitalist or angel investor there is no time like the present to declare a bubble, say valuations are out of control and predict the demise of the tech industry in the very near future.
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At the same time that our economic engines are faltering, something else is happening. Like all revolutions, it happens in fits and starts, without perfection, but it's clearly happening.
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How to get a personalized copy of Enchantment http://om.ly/BSlOG Outside the US? Email enchantment@keplers.
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In an infographic that’s bound to cause arguments and perhaps fistfights, researchers at Hunch placed data from about 700,000 of its website visitors onto a deep illustration that shows just how different users of Macs and PCs are.
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Foursquare is seeking a new round of funding estimated at $20 to $40 million in an effort to boost the startup’s valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Big news from the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference this week.
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Exclusive - Big Switch Networks, a fledgling company building a platform for virtualizing enterprise networks based on the OpenFlow standard, has raised $13.75 million in Series A financing in a round led by Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures.
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Silicon Valley Bank this morning released Startup Outlook 2011 (PDF), a survey of startup perceptions.
The financial institution surveyed 375 U.S.
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In the world of Internet startups people can become obsessed with the function of a product or app, often ignoring how a company can change the dynamics of a market just through its sheer existence.
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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.
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