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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmannā€™s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.)

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities.

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

So I splashed out and bought a gigantic pack of pick ā€˜nā€™ mix. We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity for entrepreneurs. A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open. 16 years later, seven other companies globally use that same name! I killed it, everyone did.

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ā€œCustomer Firstā€ Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Do they conduct surveys?

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripeā€™s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tomasz Tunguz

I imagine everyone at this point has used a Zoom Webinar, so we don’t need a full demo, but just so you know, please use the chat to connect with your fellow attendees. So I definitely used it with the self-driving cars team, and got feedback like, was this accurate? I hope it works for you. Tomasz Tunguz: Yeah.

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Lesson #335: The Death of Search Engine Optimization

Red Rocket

Then, in 2002, Google launched Google Shopping, which gave ecommerce companies the opportunity to ā€œfeedā€ their product listings to Google, also on a pay-per-click model, adding a third dimension to their mix, but largely separated into its own ā€œShoppingā€ tab on Google. like this one below, for ā€œ30 x 30 table topā€).

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