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Solving for Banner Blindness. Solve Media.

Both Sides of the Table

But as we’ve all gotten used to the standard “banner&# across the top of our screens or the “sky scraper&# along the right-hand side we’ve trained ourselves not to look there any longer. Rupert Murdoch, owners of The Wall Street Journal, has famously come down on the side of charging for content.

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How To Network With Really Busy People

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Prior to the digital age, high-profile people deployed brute force to screen out unsolicited, inbound communications. Sam trusted his Assistant to set his calendar and screen out irrelevant encounters. Old School Charm.

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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

One of the advantages of blogging, using social media, public speaking, etc as a VC is that you get a more nuanced view of these shifts by watching your own successes and failures. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. So your goal should be a steady stream of news across many different news outlets and your own blog.

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How I Gamified My Own Brain to Lose Weight & Improve Fitness

Both Sides of the Table

Suddenly I look at the screen and 45 minutes have passed. I later switched to MyFitnessPal because after I sorted out the psychology it was easier to log what I was eating and keep a daily food journal. I’m just your guide but you’re going to feel great when this is over. This is when all the good stuff happens!

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 The Journal also reported at the time that Ostendo had raised $90 million from venture capital firms and Pieter Thiel, the investor and PayPal co-founder.

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5 Simple Tactics To Make Freemium Users Pay

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal. In the spirit of the “land grab” mentality of the day, we encouraged usage of our screen sharing technology with no thought applied to how we would convert such users into paying customers. You can also check out my hands-on startup advice blog HERE.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

Tech Zulu Event

Maneesh has published papers in several technical journals and is the holder of three U.S. He blogs at startup-marketing.com. Through Tech Coast Angels, he has screened in excess of four hundred start-up companies. Dr. Richard Sudeck. in Management from Claremont Graduate University (CGU).