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Rocket Lab Plans First Test Flight Of Satellite Launch Rocket

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Rocket Lab, which is led by Peter Beck, started developing its rockets in 2006. Rocket Lab said its first launch, with the mission name of "It's a Test", will take place from a launch site on the Mahia Peninsula of New Zealand.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

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Just about every Startup at some point and especially if you do not have a designer, is going to need icons to help spruce up those websites. Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Can you briefly describe IconFinder.com?

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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

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Design a product or service that you can sell. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is over $900 billion.

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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

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Most UGC sites try to spend time converting lurkers to contributors. Ming Yeow Ng asked, “Would you consider Facebook a UGC site?&# Great question. And more embarassingly to me Garindra Prahandono gave me this link to an article written by the guru of web design, Jakob Nielsen about the 1/9/90 rule written back in 2006.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). They sponsor TWiVC.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Give up a box of clothes and receive one in the size you designate. Online retailer of affordable “accessible luxury” designer fashion. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. total funding $1.7

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare). 37:00-40:30).

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