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Agent of Presence: Where Prada meets Apple
I first got a glimpse of the high-tech runway when Pop17’s video blogger Sarah Austin was my intern at Forbes in June, 2011. In this video, She interviewed former reality star Diana Eng, who has a line...
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Meet America’s youngest venture capitalist, Alex Banayan
20-year-old USC student Alex Banayan not only has the title of Youngest Associate Venture Capitalist on his resume, having signed with Alsop Louie Partners at age 19, but now he has become the...
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Office Crashers: Chegg’s opening up its education platform which reaches 30%...
Chegg arguably has 30 percent of US college students using its online education portal, which sells textbooks, helps students manage their classes, and even find scholarships. It has 15 percent of high...
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When crowdfunding doesn’t work
When I first saw the horrific images on television a week ago Friday… Twenty young kids shot and killed in their classroom, I froze. I was speechless. I felt helpless. All I wanted to do was to muster...
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Last Minute gifts for entrepreneurs that you won’t find anywhere else
One thing I know about entrepreneurs is that they like supporting other entrepreneurs. So, why not give them the gift of funding a fellow innovator. Crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and...
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Going public in the wake of Facebook: How Shutterstock made it, popped and...
When Shutterstock CEO Jon Oringer was in High School, he taught guitar. Never mind he didn’t actually play guitar. So, go figure, when he decided to take his company public, he not only did it without...
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Competitors in the connected car space thrash it out on the track
Sonoma Raceway is not your typical venue for a business meeting — unless you’re a professional driver or pit crew. But Chris Hulls, CEO of Life360, the maker of a mobile family locator app, wanted to...
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FCC chairman touts Silicon Valley entrepreneurs’ new Internet of Things...
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says, “Machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things promise tremendous benefits for consumers and our economy.” For once a big shot government official...
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LIVE PandoDaily interviews with companies launching at LAUNCH
More than 50 companies are taking the stage at this year’s LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco with more than $2 million in prizes at stake. They’re all stealth companies just waiting to reveal...
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Mayor Ed Lee at LAUNCH Festival: Immigration and payroll tax are top-of-mind
Fixing bad immigration laws are top-of-mind for Mayor Ed Lee as he prepares to attend an upcoming March For Innovation with Angel Investor Ron Conway, as well as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He...
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LAUNCH: Anybot(y) looking for funding?
We were setting up the studio backstage at the LAUNCH Festival, when we got a surprise visitor: Anybot. Actually, it’s the QB model to be specific (whatever that means). His name is Noland Katter. Or...
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Silicon Valley finds a new crop of tech talent in Australia
Kiteboarding techies have discovered a new untapped market for talent in Western Australia. You might think these executives and investors from the likes of Apple, Twitter, Silicon Valley Bank, and...
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Former Google Wave developers use soundwaves to share data between devices
When Google shut down Google Wave, a real-time messaging system, based in Australia, what ever happened to its developers? Charles River Ventures Partner and angel investor Bill Tai found two of them...
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Kickstarter for students: StudyBooster is betting you’ll pay your kids to study
In high school I had a friend whose parents promised her a new car on the day of graduation if she got straight As. My parents, in contrast, warned me that if didn’t get good grades, they wouldn’t pay...
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Could MyTime be a Groupon that works?
When I heard MyTime CEO Ethan Anderson speak at last week’s LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco, the first thing that popped into my mind was: “This company is the answer to the fall of Groupon.” I had...
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If the shoe fits: Shoes of Prey is the latest ecommerce company to leverage...
There’s a great debate raging over whether brick-and-mortar is on the way out, or waging a comeback… with the help of ecommerce 2.0. Bonobos has boosted sales and branding with the help of Nordstrom,...
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Heather Gordon as Elizabeth Hammer IS the next Lara Croft
Watch out Lara Croft (Tomb Raider). Elizabeth Hammer is the next beautiful, intelligent, and athletic heroine to win the hearts of gamers worldwide, played by Harvard graduate Heather Gordon. Four...
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DeviantArt partners with Madefire to help members monetize their communities
The first time I sat down and talked with the CEO of what’s arguably the largest art community in the world DeviantArt, he immediately handed me a pen and a paintbrush. I told him, “I can’t draw.” My...
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Povio hopes that teens will say goodbye to Twitter and Facebook
Face it: Facebook isn’t cool anymore. Like anyone and anything that’s grown up – and in Internet years Facebook is a veritable grandpa – it has responsibilities. It can’t just grow its user base...
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How to create a business making educational videos
You’ve heard of Khan Academy and its offerings of tutorials and curriculum for multiple subjects including math and science, and you probably know about Udacity, which offers college-level courses and...
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