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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

Tech Zulu Event

As we know, long gone are the days of experiencing SXSW Interactive with just 9,000 other tech entrepreneurs and business brights – with 30,000 registrants in 2013 and the final numbers for 2014 still in the works. Doug Krugman – Web Thrift Store , supporting charities through buying/selling online.

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Special Report 2069: Predicting the Internet’s Next 50 Years

Xconomy

Back in 2014, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s seminal paper proposing the World Wide Web, the Pew Research Center asked an. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. Because if we could, we’d all be bankrupt.

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Social Media Faking It – Cheaper Than You May Think, But Still Not Worth It

InfoChachkie

How much will social media fame cost you in 2014? As a bonus, you''ll also enjoy a robust number of Pinterest, Tumbler and Instagram followers and you''ll still have room in your budget for 250 comments on your blog and about 100,000 views on Vimeo. Thus, in 2014, accrue your social media status the old-fashioned way - earn it.

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Five Years After Y Combinator First Admits Biotechs, They’re Dug In

Xconomy

That opening to biotech startups in 2014 was controversial at the time. Five years ago, the big tech incubator Y Combinator started to welcome life sciences companies into its sizable startup classes, which had previously nurtured entrepreneurs in information technology almost exclusively.

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TakeLessons CEO Discusses Chromatik Buyout, Why it’s a Good Fit

Xconomy

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. The company’s last VC round in early 2014 raised $7 million. Since then, TakeLessons has raised a total of $20 million in venture capital, and expanded into new markets and services.

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Udacity Achieves 50,000 Nanodegree Grads Amid Company Reorganization

Xconomy

In a blogpost touting student successes, Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun (pictured above in 2014) said Nanodegree graduates are reporting average salary increases of 33 percent in the United States and Canada when they score new jobs after updating. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Girls In Tech Showcases Women Founders In SF Pitch Competition

Xconomy

Kristina Tsvetanova says she found the motivation for her startup Blitab in 2014, when a blind colleague’s struggle to communicate via the Internet made her conscious of the barriers facing visually impaired people in a digital world.