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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

The National Science Foundation mainly funds professors to do research. Government-owned venture capital funds, like the intelligence community's In-Q-Tel ( [link] ) or the USDA's former AARC may be a great hybrid strategy (government-owned, private appearance). You can affect this process. One example I found was H.R.