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We built something similar in 2014 for our coworking space, Capital Factory. Slightly different use case though -- to make sure all the founders at the startups working at Capital …

Yes. From austin.

Why don't they require plaintiffs in a patent suits to be actively using the patent in some sort of meaningful way in order to be allowed to file a suit? If they are just holding a…

I gave up main stream news 4 years ago and I pretty much only read tech news. However, I find that important news still bubble up to me quickly through other channels such as word …

There is no startup investing strategy that can ever be considered the "right one". The best VCs and angels intimately understand their personal strengths and develop a strategy th…

Vegetables and fruit are only as good as the soil. Big commercial organic farms aren't able to have the quality of soil as smaller organic farms... so if big ag is just cranking ou…

what is a "registered internet website"? Is that just their long winded term for website or do crowdfunding sites need to register with some government agency?

I did one better 3 yrs ago and replaced my mom's virus ridden Windows w/ Ubuntu. Best move ever, because it drastically reduced the amount of tech support I do for her. Shit just w…

Even as a 100K flyer this shit is extremely confusing to me. No wonder the airlines are so screwed up.

When I hear a good indie band, I try to buy something from them. I don't care what it is... a tshirt, a cd (even though I never play it), a beer cuzy, whatever. Today I can only do…

I can't find it either. I would have actually used it today since I found it right as I was about to search for a flight on Kayak... but w/o one-way I can't use it.

I hear that artists only receive like 15-20% of the itunes price. That a market inefficiency that I want to fix.

Glad you got so much out of the trip. Great write up.

Thanks. Ohloh looks like what I'm looking for. Will check it out.

Has anyone seen a good tool for keeping track of employee code contributions to open source projects? We (rackspace) have hundreds of developers contributing code to all sorts of p…

No idea. But I will ask because now I'm curious.

Yes, you need to be accredited (I am an investor in one of these funds)