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Android Founder on VR, Voice & the Future of Human-Machine Collaboration

Xconomy

Miner helped shape the smartphone era with Android, a mobile operating system startup that Google acquired in 2005. Android software now powers over 2 billion devices. On Tuesday, Miner spoke at a mobile software developer conference in Boston organized by Facebook, part of the city’s HUBweek festival.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

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Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees

From the Venture Trenches

Other service providers who accept equity as part of their service fee structure include web designers and developers, executive recruiters, business brokers and sometimes even caterers. Google’s famous 56 th employee, Chef Charlie Ayers joined Google in 1999 was paid 40,000 in Google stock as part of his compensation package.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. It's extremely widely used. So far so good.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I’d link to it but it’s behind a paywall.