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Great article on techcrunch about a Beijing tech conference; was in town a month ago, too bad I missed it, would have been great to attend: After exploring the mobile and Internet landscapes in Shanghai and Beijing, the GeeksOnAPlane (GOAP) group (30+ techies mostly from the Silicon Valley) continued their Asian field trip to Korea…
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Thought this was a great quote describing “bootstrapping” (quite literally too) at Zappos… Nick talked about the progress that the website had made over the past few weeks. They were already getting $2,000 worth of orders a week, and the numbers were growing. They weren’t making any money, because anytime an order was placed, Nick…
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I traveled to Beijing to meet truckers and brokers first-hand while performing market research with Xin Tian You (XTY). Xin Tian You (XTY) was founded by industry veterans with the vision to transform the Chinese transportation industry. China has 26M truckers, approximately 12M trucks (85% individually owned/operated), and hundreds of thousands of information brokers. Shipping…
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My favorite quote in this interview: Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, recently said, “The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… The ability to take data—to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it” Unfortunately for those of us working on…
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I can’t see this on my own Facebook profile yet, but we’ve gotten a number of tips in our inbox in the past 10 minutes so it’s safe to assume it’s not a hoax or anything: Facebook appears to have started enabling users to generate custom two-dimensional QR codes. From the looks of the screenshot…
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Was doing some research and found this amazing online resource for finding statistical and demographic info on college students in the US. You can dynamically build charts and tables using a Pivottable-like web interface. Very cool stuff indeed. Hope to see this functionality in other web sites. Check it out at QuickStats .
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CrunchBase is the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. via CrunchBase, The Free Tech Company Database.
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This is a great resource everyone should know about: The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) Entrepreneurship Corner is a free online archive of entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning. The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists and engineers, as well as those…
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This is an amazing work of art – shot entirely on a digital SLR by Pentax and Pentax lenses, this short film showcases what is possible with today’s digital cameras. Shot in downtown Denver entirely at night, the film keeps you rooting for a troubled character with a big heart. UNCLE JACK was filmed with…
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Found an interesting post on Infosys website: It is possible to create a unique shopping experience for grocery shoppers in the brick & mortar world. I believe this will create a unique differentiation in the minds of shoppers who are looking for a better shopping experience in the grocery stores. This will create loyalty resulting…
David Mantilla 