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Ideas, Infos and Opinions right from the heart of Silicon Valley

Joined August 2007
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#Hafven is becoming a very special asset to Hanover and its creative business community.
It seems @Hafven really is a StartUp Escalator 🤔 “These escalators provide a combination of shared, specialized equipment and labs, co-working space, plus an extensive virtual network of mentors, investors and other specialized support structures.”
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Using an AI toolkit like #TensorFlow doesn't mean anything. A real AI company is pushing the boundaries of the problem space. #VCSummit
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“When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 the company had lost its way w a confusing lineup of undistinguished products”
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Superbowl at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Go Broncos!
Cute! Google's #selfdriving Olav (the snowman) style car just waited with me at a traffic light in Mountain View.
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There and back again
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Watching #SpaceX's landing stage 1 of the Falcon 9 rocket felt like watching the moon landing in '69 all over again. Congrats Elon!
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Almost as many visitors (7660) at #CCW2013 in Berlin as last year (7700) says organizer, but it definitely felt less crowded.
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All the best things in life are analog.
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Modesty: Rupert's guy #BradleyWiggins won the Tour but his Wall Street Journal kept it hidden on page B8. Different Priorities in the US.
Dustbowl: US has the worst drought in 50 years. #Wheat prices up 42% since Jan, #corn up 55% last 4 weeks. Expect global food riots soon.
Predictive: For the last 80 years now incumbent president has been re-elected with an unemployment rate above 7.2%. Today's June rate: 8.2%.
Y-Combinator is now "Funding people without ideas". Simple reason: Ideas are plentyful but execution is key to successful business #tldrconf
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Signal of change: Devices will have an explicit lifetime and a build in shutdown to be recycled. #tldrconf
Strange new trend: Apple will unveil preliminary #iPAD2 sales on Monday. Sounds like box office numbers after weekend movie premier.
Neugier: Highway One at the Pacific Coast in San Mateo county is clogged with cars of onlookers waiting to see the tsunami.
What is coming: just heard the Tsunami warning for San Francisco and San Mateo county for 8:15 am PST on the radio.
@jsgoecke Yes, Skype is down in North America and Europe. My folks other there have no access too.
Wow: "Of all the ways to organize banking, the system we have today is by far the worst",BOE Governor Mervyn King Oct25 at Buttonwood Conf