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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.in…

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 enterpris…

What is Apple's project Magnolia? http://www.mapistry.com/hubfs/apple_project_magnolia_record.pdf Looks like it some sort of facility for thin-film fabrication. Thin-film batteries…

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 ca…

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…

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 gh…

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/

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…

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 li…

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 …

They have done work in the past for National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/04/google-earth-bu...

Library of Congress has a solicitation request out for a geospatial search engine that will crawl books, images, etc and extract geographic info even if it is not apparent. This ap…

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 develo…

Many female founders appear to be in non-technical roles. Need more women in STEM fields moving into entrepreneurship roles as the technical lead.

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 w…

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 …