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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. About its communities, content niches, the aesthetic of the first wave of user content. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Critiquing but not judging.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. About its communities, content niches, the aesthetic of the first wave of user content. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Critiquing but not judging.

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The 5 Best States In America For New Business

YoungUpstarts

Additionally, the tech startup community has grown so quickly that Utah has a new nickname: The Silicon Slopes. For technologically inclined businesses, Texas has increased its STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce by 34,000 since 2009. Austin in particular is a technological and cultural hub.

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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D. Our FedTech class pairs students with some of the most promising technologies from NASA, DOD and several other of the 87 federal labs located in the DMV region.

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The Tech Mentorship Gap: How Code2040 Is Solving. What You Can Do. And How LinkedIn Can Help

Hunter Walker

Most anyone successful in technology has benefited from those who came before them – whether it’s indirect such as opensource code or more specific, like the guidance of a CS professor. I’d love to see LinkedIn standardize the notion of community service as a field in your profile. Code2040 Stats To Date.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. West Virginia. West Virginia. Journal Community. Journal Community. A community of WSJ readers interested in franchising news, trends and issues. Whats on your technology toolbelt? Journal Community.

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10 Easy Ways To Create A Healthy Workplace

YoungUpstarts

Working this way requires good mobile technology and the right protocols to pull off (so everyone knows how to reach you), but can be incredibly empowering. Consider creating a community garden (if you have the real estate available). Stringer works for EYP, an architecture, engineering and building technology firm.