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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. Were they ambitious?

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

SoCal Delicious

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Also, as any changes to each login will be handled by JanRain, you wont have to keep updating your authentication code if changes are made by the login provider. Now click the "Generate Code" button. With this in mind, I created a class that might be useful.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com> com> 4/25/08.

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Interview with Zareh Baghdasarian, 15desks

socalTECH

For parents, if you're interested in how your kids are doing, you can find out what their schedule is like, what homework is due when, what their grades are, and how they are progressing, plus you can communicate with their teachers. They have developed this from a need. Talk about your background? What's the market opportunity here?

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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. Adding a method to an interface would mean breaking all existing code that implements the interface. Language features and APIs may still change.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market. They are often bound by geographies and asset classes. I believe that. You know what I’m talking about.

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