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The Future of Transportation

Feld Thoughts

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. Here’s why: Except for early adopters of technology and diehard environmental customers, most people aren’t buying a fuel type, they’re buying transportation.

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What’s the Difference Between a Small Business Venture and a Startup?

Up and Running

The thing is, a tech startup or any type of startup for that matter (doesn’t have to be technology focussed) and a traditional, new business venture, are different for a number of reasons, most notably: the way they think about growth. Key difference #1 – how these entities think about growth.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use. Today UEC Electronics has increased its workforce more than tenfold, from that original 10 to now 115, and is considered a key government contractor.

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What I noticed in 2013

Start Up Blog

I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. Technology is no longer a thing: It’s almost not worth mentioning now it is so ensconced in human life.

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Five Tips For People-Centric Data Security This Holiday Season

YoungUpstarts

By David Kidd, Vice President of Governance, Risk & Compliance at Peak 10. There’s no single answer but one important strategy for keeping data private and secure on major holidays and beyond is to focus on people, not just on technologies. 1] But has pubic concern inspired action? What’s the solution? Inside Job.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – February 2012

VC Cafe

R&D centers established in the center of the country will receive government support of about 19 million shekels ($5.1 Worklight’s technology enables application programmers to create, in one single process, an application that will work with a range of devices without having to rewrite the application for each platform.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

Public companies have dealt with financial disclosure in ways that evolved over time with markets and technologies. In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.” The person or business on the other end of an insider trade is at an automatic disadvantage.

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