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Email Brad Feld (brad at feld dot com) if you're looking to donate them - he's seeking laptop donations for the students at Monarch HS. Source: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2013/01/request-for-laptops-...
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Urban Airship Meeting Rules(feld.com)
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Hiring Is Obsolete (2005)(paulgraham.com)
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American Airlines Site Redesign(aa.com)
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Agreed. It's linked at the bottom of the HS piece, but I really recommend checking out Max Chafkin's Inc. piece on Markus if you haven't already: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...
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DeveloperAuction Grabs Nearly 8K Applicants For Its First Auction Out Of Beta(techcrunch.com)
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Lots of non-tech companies utilize some form of gamification: -Airlines: frequent flyer miles -Hotels: reward/loyalty points -Food/Beverage industry: punch cards, LevelUp, GoPago, McDonald's Monopoly games, Coca Cola's QR codes and cap rewa
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Fascinating story. Fast Company did a piece on Bill Nguyen about 18 months ago: ( http://www.fastcompany.com/1784823/bill-nguyen-boy-bubble ) and included an infographic on his track record: http://infographics.fastcompany.com/magazine/160
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How America Drinks: Water and Wine Surge, Cheap Beer and Soda Crash(m.theatlantic.com)
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Blake Masters has a great overview from Peter Thiel's Stanford CS183 class about the future of Thorium and why it may be a very promising cleantech energy solution: http://blakemasters.com/post/23787022006/peter-thiels-cs183-...
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How Two Outsider Entrepreneurs Took on Washington to Legalize Crowdfunding(pandodaily.com)
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I think it's more an initial aversion to a lot of risk and lack of direction, as opposed to a lack of interest in startups or small companies. At my previous startup and at my current company, we have a lot of 24-29+ year olds (as opposed t
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This study's benchmark for innovation is "measured by the number of patents filed." It's hard to measure innovation, but going off of just patents alone is ridiculous. That said, I would actually agree that in general, post-IPO innovation s
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Similar story here. I used to own several hundred books but decided to pare down to about 20 over the last few years. Aside from making moving a breeze, the best part is that my favorite books are now conversation pieces for my friends/visi
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I ran a quick search for articles or data to support pg's idea but couldn't find any. I'm wondering if, on average, "rich" and "poor" people have a similar amount of stuff/junk, but the rich have higher-quality junk and more room to spread
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Stuff (2007)(paulgraham.com)
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The Importance Of A Monthly Cadence With Close Friends(feld.com)
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The Aftermath(aaronsw.com)
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Syllables, Scrabble Letters, and Picking Brand Names(hopperanddropper.com)
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Skill-Biased Technological Change and Rising Wage Inequality(owenzidar.wordpress.com)
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Reddit is Raising $1m at a $400m Valuation(allthingsd.com)
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Google Ventures 2012: Year in Review(blog.googleventures.com)
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Programming Your Culture(techcrunch.com)
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Instagram founder distorted the truth to expedite Facebook deal(venturebeat.com)
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What If You Don't Want to Be a Manager?(blogs.hbr.org)
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YouSendIt CEO: Beware the Silicon Valley bubble(news.cnet.com)
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Ben Horowitz on hiring executives for your startup(pandodaily.com)
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A Computer for Your Car's Windshield(online.wsj.com)
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A Bunch Of Students Think They Have Found The Next Mark Zuckerberg (Dan Shipper)(businessinsider.com)
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Pitchenvy: Showcasing the best startup pitch decks(pitchenvy.com)
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