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Taiwanese reassurances that water shortages won’t hit chipmaking show climate change’s direct threat to tech

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It is complexity theory made manifest and only serves to show that scalable, data-driven solutions rapidly deployed across large industrial markets are our only hope in correcting the course,” wrote Vaughn Blake, a partner at the energy-focused investment firm Blue Bear Capital. Intel alone used 9 billion gallons of water in 2015).

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Lime is building its first scooter ‘lifestyle brand store’ in LA

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How can Lime differentiate its scooters and bikes from the piles of Birds and Spins filling Los Angeles sidewalks? He explains that scooter companies have thought about expansion too purely from the standpoint of acheiving market saturation. They’ll also be throwing live events to build Lime’s hype.

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Pipeliner CRM's Nikolaus Kimla On Moving to LA, Sales Entrepreneurship

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Southern California has a growing number of companies in the customer relationship management area, including a fairly new company in the area, Pipeliner CRM (www.pipelinersales.com). I''m living now in Los Angeles. The reason why, they told us, is because it was not for us, but was written for management.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

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Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. When should you start a company?

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. None of us was convinced the market really needed 5 accelerators. See point one!

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? But expanding beyond our core customers was going to take more effort than simply launching in new markets. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for.

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