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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Working on it. And being ambitious.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. One of the unintended consequences was that many of the academics went off to found a wave of startups selling their technology to the military. America’s adversaries understand this.

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Please go see “Waiting for Superman.” Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

It has long been believed that people from lower-income neighborhoods can’t learn as well as middle & upper class ones due to environment issues such as problems at home and trouble in the neighborhood. Can you imagine if we ran our tech industry this way? Tags: Non Tech. I was fast tracked. By a teacher.

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

Both Sides of the Table

I worked in both before leaving to work in a software company at 17. I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. I had a business class seat due to status of flying a lot and my family was in economy. She opened 2 businesses – a bakery and then a restaurant.

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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them. These new technologies will become an integral part of most e-shops.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

Below is a recap of some of September’s Israeli tech headlines: Investment rounds. uTest has established itself as the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services, with over 25,000 testers in over 160 countries. The round is intended to support Kenshoo’s expansion into France, Germany and Asia.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation. There is even a special instructions autoreply when someone rents, allowing them to access any garage pin codes or directions to access gated spaces.