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Episode 92: Educational and Galactic Profitability with Dr. Zarik Boghossian

Mike Michalowicz

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Also Available On. Show Summary.

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

Both Sides of the Table

Put simply, the amount of public, real-time information that is now being created by hundreds of millions of users and soon billions of objects will change the way every major business, organization or government must operate. We co-led the A-round with IA Ventures. Not so DataSift. We knew we had a winner. ” Steve.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

www.usatoday.com

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif., Car owners on RelayRides make on average about $250 a month, says founder Shelby Clark.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

After operating for nearly ten years, we’ve recently being going through a company-wide process of rethinking our Mission, Vision, and Values. To offset this, we have focused on finding investing partners who believe in our vision for TravelSOUL and in us as co-founders to bring that vision to life. Thanks to Anne C.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. million followers).

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

We had a chat with Viber founder and CEO Talmon Marco to go beyond the facts in the press release and see how the company is faring. How, when and why did you co-found Viber Media? Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. I think we will let the users decide if they want these operating systems.

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5 Meetings That Changed The World

YoungUpstarts

The founders of Apple Inc. The two bonded over their shared interests and went on to co-create one of the most revered, influential brands in technology. During WWII, ‘the Big Three’ met in Iran in 1943 at the famous Tehran Conference. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt.

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