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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Forsblom is now in Los Angeles and San Diego, and reinventing himself with a mobile application company called TenFarms (www.tenfarms.com). Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll?

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. .” The approach was clever and novel.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. Before that, I was at a multimedia design academy in high school. What were your backgrounds before Beatshare?

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SYNCFAB | Connecting Creative Community to Local Manufacturing Businesses

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New and innovative designers are popping up everywhere, thanks to new technology like 3D printing. SYNCFAB , (Synchronized Fabrication) is a platform to bring hybrid 3D printing and connect inventors and designers with manufacturers and material specialists to bring back local manufacturing.

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Interview with Patrick O'Neill, olloclip

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I've been focused only on mobile for the last twelve years. I had probably spent eight months perfecting the product, and getting the design where it needed to be, and all patents filed. Sometimes they said they had an idea, and wanted to get a patent on it, and wanted to launch on Kickstarter next week. Patrick O'Neill.

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On Ramp Wireless: Connecting The Smart Grid

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In the world of mobile app and Internet startups, it''s not that often that you see companies who touch the hardware side of the world get funding nowadays. Kevin Hell: We''re going all the way down to the chip design and production, which is coming out of Asia. We have Renaissance making our chips. Ghz range, in a very unique way.

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Interview with DialPlus

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We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. I had been starting Internet startups, and I realized that around 2000/2001 that mobile was going to next big thing.