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Web 2.0 & eHealth

AeA Los Angeles Council

The AeA just released its third Competitiveness Series report endorsing eHealth, arguing that it will lower costs and enhance the safety, reliability, convenience, and delivery of healthcare. All installments of the AeA Competitiveness Series can be downloaded for free at: www.aeanet.org/cs. We’ve already seen how Web 2.0

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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

Both Sides of the Table

What I’d like to do is tell you the story of how the investment came to be, what my thesis is / was and share some thoughts on macro trends. The Team – I’m on record as saying that 70% of my investment criteria are team related. I’m also on record as saying I invest in lines & not dots. He wanted to be an entrepreneur.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. My angel investing strategy vs Joshua Schachter - Gabriel Weinberg , May 18, 2010 Joshua Schacter has a great AMA thread on HN about angel investing. they released a new 2.0 At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time. Here’s why.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

Both Sides of the Table

I first wanted to invest in this trend by backing a company called Filmaka. I didn’t end up investing but I always loved the concept. They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. means specifically one thing.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

socalTECH

What really differentiates us from our competition is the data set we have. Our competition doesn't have that data. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 He is a friend of mine.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. As we learned from our investment in Overture and the subsequent success of Google, “intent-based&# advertising is enormously powerful. If we continue our success we will have strong competition.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

This 15-20 year prospecting, as a general rule, requires a long-term investment strategy by the government. One, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has an office called the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, which heads up the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) ( [link] ). Army, for example.