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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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Interview with Andrew Schydlowsky, TrackStreet: Brand Protection Using AI

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Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts. Andrew Schydlowsky: We entered this market in 2015, and we are backed by a combination of institutional investors, and some family offices, as well as some very experienced and successful angels and operators. What is TrackStreet?

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. If you have a market lead then raising capital and making investments now will help you as others enter the market. ” The Details.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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Many companies would love to be able to get the benefits of cloud--easy configurability, low cost, scaling, and more--but, due to various reasons, can''t take advantage of public cloud services like Amazon. With our software, our clients just inherited the ability to use Ceph, and there was nothing they had to do to get that.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. Consider just how much exposure the Austin community gets every year due to SXSW.