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PIPA and SOPA. What’s the Big Deal?

November 16th, 2011 · View Comments · VC, tech

For more details, read the posts by Bijan Sabet and Fred Wilson or watch this video on Vimeo. Take 30 seconds and click here to write your congressman.

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More Services You Should Use in 2010

January 13th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech

This is a continuation of my January 7th post on new services to use in 2010. Lala is for those of you out there who are music lovers. It’s also part of the movement towards non-native applications that operate in the cloud. So you may already have iTunes or Windows Media, which operates natively on [...]

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Apps You Should Use in 2010!

January 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech

…that is, if you don’t already! Here are some of the ones I use. Some are new, and some not-so-new, but I’ve found all of them to be very useful. Dropbox is great. I started using Dropbox during my second semester senior year primarily so I had a place to store large attachments instead of [...]

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Congratulations, Founders IB!

December 24th, 2009 · View Comments · Personal, tech

During my junior year over winter break, I had the good fortune to be able to do a short internship at Founders Investment Banking, based in Birmingham, Alabama. I was hired to be an analyst for Founders’ recently-started Internet and Digital Media Group and actually managed to work on two deals, both of which closed. [...]

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A New Shopping Model, Just in Time for Black Friday

November 25th, 2009 · View Comments · VC, tech

Have you ever needed to buy something that you can’t get cheaply on Amazon or another online retailer, or just needed to purchase something quickly without having to wait for it to ship? Of course you have. It’s the way that shopping worked before the online era! But now that you’ve gotten used to comparison [...]

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