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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. they released a new 2.0 You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0 style euphoria that swept the Valley beginning in 2005. Along with Facebook and Twitter investments (see below) this wave is more diverse but no less speculative.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

My colleague at National Defense University, Dr. Tim Coffey, head of the Naval Research Laboratory for many years, called these two parts of discovery the "prospecting" and "mining" phases in a 2005 paper ( [link] ), where prospecting is largely the responsibility of the government and mining that of industry. Army, for example.