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Here Is What You Missed At VidCon 2013

InfoChachkie

If you were not walking the halls of the Anaheim Convention last week, you missed a whole lot at the VidCon 2013. As I write this article, Crash Course stands at 83% of its pledge goal, with nearly 10,800 fans funding the show''s production costs for its upcoming season. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. If you’re going to play in the big leagues you need to be writing checks from a $700 million?—?$1 Are we in a bubble?” By definition?—?I’m of the fund.

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How To Make (Almost) Anything Go Viral

InfoChachkie

To make his point that the message matters more than messenger, Professor Berger writes, “…think about a forest fire. The description of each of these principles are from this 2013 talk Professor Berger gave at Wharton. We share information to help others, to make them better off.”. My job is to show you which half.’”.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. The funding rounds will also build customer confidence and they’ll help journalists feel air cover in writing your more important pieces when you brag about customers, traction, revenue or whatever. But in 2013 it can also simply be, “Company X raises $2.2

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myfab5 Wanst to Reinvent The Way You Find Food | Interview With Co-Founder Calvin Schemanski

Tech Zulu Event

On myfab5, people rank their favorite places instead of giving them star ratings and write bite-sized reviews instead of writing long reviews. To answer these questions you begin reading multiple reviews for multiple businesses until you feel you have enough information to make a decision.

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How Go Trexx is Making Travel More Rewarding, with Samantha Lurey

socalTECH

Go Trexx (www.gotrexx.com), which is based in Mission Viejo, think it's by engaging kids with mobile applications which provide background information, helps to build excitement, and gets kids involved in traveling to different destinations. I ended up hunting and pecking through to find the right information.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

March 28, 2013. See Environment Details below for more information. write(HelloDbResponse.mapper.writeValueAsString(worlds)); } catch (IOException ex) { } } }); return response; }. We routinely use other frameworks on client projects and we want this data to inform our recommendations for new projects. March 2013 (2).

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