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Tech and Entrepreneurs: Changing of the Guard

By Azam on October 12, 2011 Add a Comment

Venture Capital was a small world in the earlier period of venture funding. Large families like Rockefellers started their private funds through into highly risky ventures. The East coast and Boston was the center of venture investing largely Boston area…

MakerBot Enables You to Make Something

By Azam on October 7, 2011 Add a Comment

Makerbot Thingomatic and Cupcake

MakerBot’s Thing-O-Matic ‘prints’ in 3D by building up layers of plastic. Photograph: David Neff

MakerBot is a revolutionary 3D printing machine that allows users to design physical products. MakeBot is making 3D printing and design affordable and will unleash the creative…

Quirky Social Crowd Making Products

By Azam on October 3, 2011 Add a Comment

Quirky is a very smart business model that engages the crowd to produce products that other may want. Quirky takes advantage of the community based development of product to test, produce, and market. Besides selling directly to consumers the company…

Greplin Grabs Your Personal Content

By Azam on September 23, 2011 Add a Comment

A few years ago, Daniel Gross was on his way to a party in his native Israel when he pulled out his smartphone to look up the address. The invitation could have been buried in his e-mail, on Facebook, or…

Make More Kabbage Online

By Azam on August 26, 2011 Add a Comment

Kabbage provides financing to allow merchants buy inventory by innovative techniques to analyze credit based on metrics determined by social media and gaming. Kabbage uses a variety of metrics as ranking sellers, on time delivery, and other metrics related to…

Ness Being More Subjective on Search

By Azam on July 19, 2011 Add a Comment

Ness is working on developing highly personalized search engine and recently received 5M from investors. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures lead the Series A round, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, and Angel investors.

The Alsop-incubated company is…

BitCoin the New Currency

By Azam on June 10, 2011 Add a Comment

BitCoin is the ultimate currency in the modern and well connected world. BitCoin has recently been in the spotlight to news of being tied to the nefarious purposes. The growing interest in the currency offers a real the validation on…

Social Networking Falling Under the Influence of Others

By Azam on June 6, 2011 Add a Comment

Social Networking is a powerful tool in sharing and decimating information across a network. I have been thinking on this idea for some time from telecom to statecraft. In telecom, networks are geared towards passing data to nodes and the…

Groupon is a lot like Group Sex

By Azam on June 3, 2011 Add a Comment

Everyone wants to have some fun at first and things get too messy and ultimately you are disappointed. You do not want to let others know you caught up there in between all of it. Groupon was fun in the beginning…

Mobile Payment is Getting Very Near

By Azam on May 24, 2011 Add a Comment

Google and Sprint set to announce today the launch of mobile payment using Near Field Technology. The market for mobile payment is heating up with launch of NFC technology and commercial availability. The mobile payment service requires a NFC semi…