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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024

TechEmpower

Are specific technologies or platforms involved in your project? Do they have experience with the technologies involved in your project? What are the review periods and your responsibility in the process? Or is your project a clean slate? Are there complexities revolving around algorithms or databases?

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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 practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

Always-on connectivity of mobile (164m US smartphone users). When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. Where are we today?

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Energica CEO plots her Italian EV company’s reboot from lockdown

TechCrunch LA

Cevolini highlighted greater awareness of the smog internal combustion mobility creates and scientific evidence that air pollution exacerbates viruses as factors that could swing more folks to electric. Technology from the track is transferring to production models, according to Cevolini. In the U.S.,

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. And it’s driving up prices beyond their inherent value.

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