rjanoch

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by rjanoch 9y ago
Indie.vc has a list of large bootstrapped companies at the bottom of their FAQ. Some like ESRI are unicorns and have a near monopoly but have been around for 40 years http://www.indie.vc/faq
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by rjanoch 9y ago
I believe there is an opportunity for innovative private companies in the "conservative" environmental, construction, etc sectors to have a similar approach where 1 large enterprise works with tech company to solve X and then othe
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Water moonshot: solving utilities biggest problems with tech(georgehawkins.net)
16 points by rjanoch 9y ago|2 comments
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Apple's Project Magnolia
1 points by rjanoch 11y ago|1 comments
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by rjanoch 11y ago
Another area of concern with plastics and water is with microbeads and pre-production plastics. http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/mar/27/microbead... As part of health care products or just raw
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by rjanoch 11y ago
As PG wrote - persistence is key ( http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html ). Resources (runway, personal savings) can let you outlast the competition or exist long enough to let the industry you are changing/creating catc
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You Don't Have What It Takes to Be a Founder(calacanis.com)
2 points by rjanoch 11y ago|3 comments
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by rjanoch 11y ago
A company in the SF Bay Area tried to start a ship breaking on Mare Island, but couldn't make it work. Many ships are taken to Brownsville Texas for ship breaking, including the ghost ships (old navy ones) in Suisun bay.
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Jerry Brown's Investments in Oakland(mercurynews.com)
2 points by rjanoch 12y ago|0 comments
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Malcolm Gladwell on What Really Makes People Disruptive(inc.com)
3 points by rjanoch 12y ago|0 comments
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by rjanoch 12y ago
There was an article in Science on 3D space related to this. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6130/367 http://knowingneurons.com/2014/05/29/navigating-a-3d-world/
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by rjanoch 12y ago
1. I love to cook for fun. 2. I like the creative side of cooking, so no planning ahead. We get a vegetable CSA box which makes things interesting and a challenge each week to cook with new veggies. 3. I slow cook meats a lot and use a lot
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by rjanoch 12y ago
I had a very similar experience. I love the cleaning lady I found through a more traditional route: word of mouth. But when I heard about Homejoy I had to give it a try, it is a little cheaper. But the cleaner they sent did a significantly
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by rjanoch 12y ago
Yes at the surface. However, I think there are opportunities in enterprises at the lower levels or through guerrilla style tactics (e.g. Yammer). Through a combination of free and price points that allow individual or middle management auth
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by rjanoch 12y ago
They have done work in the past for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-earth-bu...
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Geospatial Search Engine for Library of Congress
6 points by rjanoch 12y ago|2 comments
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by rjanoch 12y ago
Very true. However, having a woman in a lead technical role to provide mentorship and inspiration to female developers is very important for encouraging more women to become developers and stay in the industry.
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by rjanoch 12y ago
Many female founders appear to be in non-technical roles. Need more women in STEM fields moving into entrepreneurship roles as the technical lead.
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by rjanoch 12y ago
I agree it would be difficult. They could make assumptions based on founders' degree, but difficult to tell as some technical people don't have a degree in EE or CS. Also, people with a EE/CS degree are not necessarily fillin
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by rjanoch 12y ago
New app asks for founder's gender. Should have much better data with this class on the number of female founders and percentage of total. Also should have better data on number of technical female founders.