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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

TechCrunch LA

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso is credited with coining the term in the title of her 2014 memoir, “#Girlboss,” which chronicled her rags-to-riches success and was adapted into a Netflix show. Please stop using the word Girlboss thank you.

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How FreedomPop's Free Wireless Internet is Disrupting Telecom

socalTECH

We're not going to be the perfect model for people who are streaming huge amounts of video, and using Netflix all day. But, the other 80 percent of users, who are using email and web surfing, our entry level will be around $10 a month. We're looking to completely revolutionize home Internet. What kind of coverage do you have?

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Startup Pricing: Are You Selling A Giffen Product?

InfoChachkie

A recurring entrepreneurial challenge is to determine the optimal price of a new product, especially absent a directly competitive alternative. This is analogous to asking Netflix for a discount because you never use its recommendation engine. When we initially launched GoToMyPC, the price of our annual plan equated to $9.95

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Hands-On with Nokia’s Lumia 900 and Windows Phone 7

Tech Zulu Event

With a full day’s usage (reading twitter, watching some Netflix, downloading apps, making a few phone calls), the battery still had plenty of juice at the end of the day to continue, and then some. I didn’t notice any jitters or call quality issues, nor did phone usage seem to destroy the battery life. The Camera.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc. Competition. You need to ask yourself honestly how your product or service is going to be significantly better in some way than the competition that exists in the market. You need a wedge.

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Hands-On with Nokia’s Lumia 900 and Windows Phone 7

Tech Zulu Event

With a full day’s usage (reading twitter, watching some Netflix, downloading apps, making a few phone calls), the battery still had plenty of juice at the end of the day to continue, and then some. I didn’t notice any jitters or call quality issues, nor did phone usage seem to destroy the battery life. The Camera.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It was intended to be a single solution for all-things advertising online (banner ads, email, content management, search advertising, etc.). So much for resting!

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