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Technical Writing News – Nov 20th
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Submitted by Ivanwalsh from Google Reader: Meet Captain Jing, eat Alphabetti Spaghetti, create lists in Robohelp, move technical writers to network thinking, LaTeX (not that type!), Why I Wasn’t Sold on Single Sourcing, The Moment I Felt Like an Executive, Does Your Company Need a Dedicated Tweeter? and how much does Darren Rowse earn from Blogging. What are you (Read More)
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European startups need to work as hard as Valley ones – or forget it
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TechCrunch UK: This is our third guest post written by a London-based VC. To allow them to speak plainly without jeopardising their fund or their career in the small village that is the London VC scene, I’m allowing them to post anonymously. FYI, LondonVC is a genuine VC and TechCrunch Europe has met them face to face.One of the biggest c (Read More)
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GreenBeat: Cisco has a blank check for Smart Grid, but what will it do with it?
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VentureBeat: Cisco Systems has put no limit on its budget for Smart Grid development,  the company’s grid guru Laura Ipsen told the audience at GreenBeat 2009 — albeit quoting her boss John Chambers. The question now is what Cisco will use that money for — for now it looks like its racing to get in on every nook and cranny of the Smart (Read More)
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GreenBeat: Where will the VC money flow on the Smart Grid?
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VentureBeat: Venture capitalists and investment bankers are fascinated by the potential of making money from Smart Grid investments and initial public offerings in the coming year, judging from the latest panel at GreenBeat 09.In spite of a difficult IPO market and the recession’s drag on the industry, Smart Grid companies are starting (Read More)
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The Music Conundrum: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive...
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines: Wired:The digital music doubters could be right with the contention that advertising revenue can’t cover the costs of licensing music. Meanwhile, illegitimate free music sources continue to proliferate, rendering paid music subscriptions irrelevant for most music fans…Advertising was supposed to be music’s magic bull (Read More)
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Chile’s Austral Capital to help Latin American startups reach the US — and vice versa
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VentureBeat: Santiago, Chile-based Austral Capital is one of a growing number of Latin American VC firms making names for themselves. Thanks to aggressive support from the Chilean government, the less than two-year old company has funded several Chilean start-ups, including Atakama Labs. And it’s also moved quickly to set up an office i (Read More)
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New York City is the Future of the Web
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Anil Dash: I'm here at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC today, my first big tech industry conference in a long time, where I'm also excitedly getting ready for my keynote tomorrow.But one of the things I'm most proud of is that has something of a valedictory feel to it, as we note that many of the best, most interesting, most subversive and di (Read More)
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Chilean startup focuses on games for social good
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VentureBeat: The latest game company to raise a round of funding reflects the global reach of the industry. Chile’s Atakama Labs has raised $4 million from two Chilean venture capital funds, Austral Capital and COPEC-UC.The company hasn’t announced its games, but its co-founders say they’re working on “meaningful games” that “help you f (Read More)
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Pitch yourself, not your idea cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog
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Submitted by Competent from Google Reader: ← Presenting Founder Collective Pitch yourself, not your idea November 14th, 2009 | startups, venture capital There is a widespread myth that the most important part of building a great company is coming up with a great idea.  This myth is reflected in popular movies and books: someone inve (Read More)
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Online Subscription Billing Is A Pain. Recurly Wants To Alleviate It.
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TechCrunch: Most startups have about a billion things to worry about. For many of them, this includes execution of their business model. With online ad networks depressed, increasingly, a number of those companies are starting to explore subscription-based models. But there are a dozen reasons why that can be a pain. Enter Recurly.Recu (Read More)
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Intel Capital invests $25M in seven new startups
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VentureBeat: Intel said today that it has invested $25 million in seven new startups as part of its goal of advanced the interests of increasing demand for the company’s products.The investments were led by Intel Capital, which is the investment arm of the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker. The investments show that Intel hasn’t flin (Read More)
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MySpace Looking to Acquire iMeem for a Pretty (Desperate) Penny...
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The Daily Swarm - Headlines: TechCrunch:We don’t know the price of the acquisition, but this isn’t going to be a big win for investors. iMeem has raised at least $25 million (that we’ve been able to track) plus at least another $10 million in debt. But the difficultly in making a free streaming music service work as a business model forced them (Read More)
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After VC cash? Show ‘em what you’ve learned
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VentureBeat: (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This column originally appeared on his blog.)I joined the board of Cafepress.com when it was a startup. It was amazing to see the two founders, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, build a $100 million company from coffee cups and T-shirts (Read More)
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Rdio Recruits Star Designer Wilson Miner (Apple.com, EveryBlock)
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TechCrunch: I wasn’t kidding around when I wrote that Rdio, the latest online music venture backed by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis – the original founders of Kazaa, Skype and Joost – was assembling a killer team by hiring away top talent from some of the most promising startups in the digital music space while still in stealth mode (Read More)
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Microsoft’s Loss, Google’s Gain. Don Dodge Gets A New Job
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TechCrunch: It was just 11 days ago that Microsoft’s “ambassador to startups” Don Dodge was laid off as part of a broader workforce reduction. Last week he showed up in Silicon Valley to “see friends” as he put it. But it was clear that he was also interviewing for jobs. We sat down with him to do a proper exit interview while he was i (Read More)
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