Posts Tagged ‘ attention ’

(Founder Stories) Mick Mountz: East Coast VC’s “Are Willing To Look At More One-Off Type Opportunities”

(Founder Stories) Mick Mountz: East Coast VC’s “Are Willing To Look At More One-Off Type Opportunities”

In episode II of his Founder Stories interview with host, Chris Dixon ,  Kiva Systems founder, Mick Mountz discusses traversing the country in search of capital shortly after launching his company almost a decade ago. With plans to disrupt the picking, packing and shipping industry, Moutz went shopping for investors on Sand Hill...

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Boxee Box Gets Ready To Do It Live: USB TV Tuner/Antenna Coming In January

Boxee Box Gets Ready To Do It Live: USB TV Tuner/Antenna Coming In January

Many people think of television antennas as relics of the past: bunny ears and ugly wires, black and white, and fuzzy snow pictures. So, instead, we’re happy to plop down upwards of $50 (or $85, or $100) a month to get cable, which comes loaded with HD content and (sometimes) high quality programming. Turns...

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Startup Veterans Launch Imagine K12, A “Y Combinator For Education Startups”

Startup Veterans Launch Imagine K12, A “Y Combinator For Education Startups”

Startup veterans Geoff Ralston , Tim Brady and Alan Louie are launching Imagine K12 today, an education focused startup accelerator/investor that is modeled closely after Y Combinator . The goal of the new project is simple – “To effect positive change in the K-12 education space.” Everyone thinks they know exactly what schools...

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Plaxo Goes Back To Being A Smart Address Book, Launches Virtual Assistant

Plaxo Goes Back To Being A Smart Address Book, Launches Virtual Assistant

Plaxo has had its fair share of ups and downs. Back in 2006, the company famously wrestled with spamming allegations and was later the subject of controversy over the screen scraping techniques it used to pull contacts from Facebook. (Which led to the infamous “Scoblegate” .) With its launch of Pulse in 2007,...

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Canon EOS 6D / 5D Mark III rumours: what you need to know

Canon EOS 6D / 5D Mark III rumours: what you need to know

In our continuing look at some the new digital cameras hotly tipped for release in 2011, we cast our attention to the Canon EOS 6D - or will it be the Canon EOS 5D Mark III that is the Canon 5D Mark IIreplacement. It's hard to believe the Canon EOS5D Mark II is...

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