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How Deka Sounds Is Using 3D Printing For Your Next Bluetooth Headset

socalTECH

I took some time off with my family, and in 2009 and 2010 came up with this idea for the Bluetooth. I decided we''d patent a sliding mechanism on our Bluetooth, and use 3D printers to take pictures that people send to us, and my company will design a Bluetooth based on their picture, on our 3D printer. Why raise money on Indiegogo?

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Here Are the Details About Upfront Ventures’ Newest EIR – @Chamillionaire

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This was 2009 and his understanding of audience engagement was far beyond anything I was hearing from most people at that time. Chamillionaire has a way more refined sense of what customer behavior is like than most ivy league graduates with nice Powerpoint slides that I meet. I reached out after the event to learn more.

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Startup Metrics

SoCal CTO

Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. These are captured fairly well by his slide: The beauty of what he's defined is the relationship between retention and referral efforts and lifetime value. We need to make sure we have these numbers.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins. Venture capitalists have raised increasing amounts of money from their investors (LPs) every year.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”

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Why integrity doesn’t matter any more that gravity.

Daradiction

Here’s the deal, it seems to me that most folks run a ‘cost benefit analysis’ on integrity, or in other words having integrity where it “matters&# but then letting things ’slide’ where it doesn’t.really matter or they think no one will find out.

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Daniel Lanois

Daradiction

Mercy – Rocco DeLuca and the Burden , 2009. My sense is that the haunting and ambient slide guitar that Dan does so well would be amazing with Jack’s vibe, and I can only imagine what sort of parallel universe would open up with all that action. All That You Can’t Leave Behind – U2 , 2000.

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