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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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LIFT10: Workshop on Hacking Venture Capital - Fred Destin , May 7, 2010 This morning at the excellent LIFT Conference I gave a two hour workshop on " Hacking Venture Capital " designed to give entrepreneurs a hands-on experience of (a) pitching and (b) negotiating with detailed debrief and tricks of the trade. Should I Get My MBA?

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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If you look at an enterprise developer of IT team with DevoOs, they have to create applications, manage those applications, and now are dealing with open source, hundreds of different web services, network elements, all virtualized and with containers and new tools. One, is this fund is really designed to pile onto its winners.

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Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix

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It was the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. I studied it, and very much enjoyed it, but by the time I got to my fourth year of school, I figured out I really didn't want to be that engineer in the lab, designing microprocessors. Jennifer Sargent: We did our initial fundraising in the fall of 2008, and launched in January of 2009.

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Where's Waldo Panel: Finding Social Influencer's & Decreasing Your Costs Live This Thursday

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His specialty combines social media with search engine marketing to build large media audiences on the web. Emily Goligoski is a Strategic Programs Manager with online publishing company Federated Media’s and writes about arts, culture and design innovation. Scott Tilton loopd.com. . . Emily Goligoski Federatedmedia.net. . .

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

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. 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. Once you start censoring the Web, you restrict the ability to imagine and innovate.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. Joel doesn’t think he could design software for something in which he doesn’t have expertise.