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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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Marc was previously CEO of Syntricity, and was founding CEO at Prisa Networks (acquired by EMC). However, it's a very large market--we peg it at around $11 billion a year, and some estimate it to be as big as $20 billion a year, including scientific journals, academic journals, scientific societies, and conferences.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. As the mobile ecosystem has grown the industrialized world is now carrying a mini computer in their pocket that is connected to a cellular network. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls. We love to streamline and text people.

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Interview: Seth Epstein of SocialStay

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Your team operates out of a barn on your idyllic, coastal property, yet you have created a world-class product. 5) As an investor, I frankly find it tiresome the degree to which entrepreneurs attempt to hype their companies by integrating “social networks and social media” into their pitches. We subscribe to the same philosophy.”.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am. In 2004, we switched over to Zigbee sensor networks, 802.15.4, Jason Howe: RFID is used a lot in pharmacies.

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Venture Outlook 2016

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On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. Are LPs to blame?