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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Here is where having Marc Berte and a team out of MIT who have designed systems like this for years gave one confidence we could do something others couldn’t copy and at price points that could make us market leaders over night. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. He looks for artists in their craft programmers, graphic designers and UI folks (tends not to do hardware). Before GUBA, Thomas worked at Sony on the VAIO computer.

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