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harrisonweber

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About harrisonweber

VentureBeat executive editor

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    Comment #13735484

    Courter point: The team here developed some interesting new mobile microscopy techniques. It's possible, had the project completed development, that some other cool things could ha…

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    Comment #13735477

    The creators of this project told me they actually wondered if PETA would take offense. Ideally, though, the tardigrades would have had plenty of algae and room to swim around/repr…

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    Comment #13735472

    One big thing here is that Ara was part of ATAP which was acquired from Motorola (back when Google owned Motorola). So the culture of this project is an unusual one, even for Googl…

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    Comment #13735463

    Ara's been gone since August. I sourced the story myself, not sure how it's click bait tbh! Did you read it?

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    Comment #7746962

    Could have been more clear, but this is the reason in a nutshell "Since Chrome’s rise, Mozilla has hardly any weight to thrown around." Chrome is over 5 years old.

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    Comment #6548363

    I've seen this idea work well in very young companies (2 to 10 employees). It can boost morale at that size, but it would likely feel forced beyond a handful of employees.

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    Comment #6374424

    No, but a startup is a company designed to grow into something much larger very quickly — that (historically) requires a massive amount of work. Small businesses can require 80 hou…

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    Comment #6374194

    I would. Again, small biz VS startup.

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    Comment #6374186

    I think what you're highlighting is the difference between startups and small businesses.

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    Comment #5664726

    No, I wasn't saying it would actually work ;)