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Beware of Ballers on a Budget

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I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. It got me thinking about the tech industry. Because often these Conference Hos bring back their latest idea from the hot tub cocktail session with their favorite tech superstar. A few years ago I headed out to China for a few weeks on a tech tour. ” We laughed.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation! Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002.

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How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps

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What we saw back in 2005, was that everyone was making a ton of money on desktop ads, because that''s where the users were. However, I really like algorithmic content recommendation, using machine learning and other crazy geek tech stuff to help provide information to consumers. They''re even one of our advertisers right now.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. and Half.com. They have sixteen people on staff.

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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One of the folks in media who has been helping to define that shift is Cenk Uygur , the head of Culver City-based The Young Turks (www.tytnetwork.com), and online news and politics show. Our other shows are about sports, entertainment, movie reviews, university news--all of the things that fit under the umbrella of news. Just do it.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.