Silicon Valley Code Camp
(T) This weekend, at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, 5,000 Silicon Valley engineers will attend Code Camp. Certainly the biggest code camp in the world! A great place to learn from other […]
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NoSQL Database Conference
(T) The NoSQL database conference “NoSQL Now” occurred this week in San Jose. All the major NoSQL vendors were there: mongoDB, Objectivity, Crouchbase, Neo4j… Like last year, what surprised me was the […]
Y Combinator Summer 13 Demo Day
(B) Yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Y Combinator has its Summer 13 Demo Day. TechCrunch has a good coverage of the event: Top 8 start-ups. All start-ups, that introduced […]
The Hyperloop Vehicle Capsules Accelerated by a Linear Electric Motor up to 760 mph in Solar Powered Tubes
(T) Imagine that you could attend a lecture at UCLA in the morning, and at Stanford in the afternoon; or the same day that you finish coding a game in […]
Sensors in the Internet of Things
(T) When I worked at Sun Microsystems, we used to say “The Network is the Computer”…now maybe… “The Sensor is the Computer”. Sensors can now not only capture data but […]
Why not an Agriculture that is Natural Bioregional and Sustainable?
(E) The New York Times has published today a great article about how Florida citrus growers are trying to producing new oranges by modifying their DNA. Why would they do […]
The Eleventh Season From Bach
(E) One of the best musical secrets of Silicon Valley: Music@Menlo or the finest summer Chamber Music Festival. This Eleventh Season of Music@Menlo organized by Music Directors David Finckel and Wu Han […]
The African Family
(B) “AFRICA IS A PARADOX. It is one of the richest continents on the planet, endowed with oil, precious stones, and metals, forests, water, wildlife, soil, land, agricultural products…(but) any […]
The Mouse and the Mother of All Demos
(T) I had the opportunity to attend many events at SRI International in Menlo Park about the inventions and contributions of Doug Engelbart. Yesterday, Mr. Engelbart peacefully left us. According to the […]
Repair and Reform the Only Way to Growth
(B) Last week, Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled that the current Feds’ program of bond purchases of $85 billion a month (or QE – quantitative easing forever) will slow later this […]
Meet the Latest Wave of Mobile App Entrepreneurs
(T) A few inspiring videos from the latest wave of mobile app entrepreneurs. Four well-known apps. Four different stories…Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger “from Stanford to Start-up”, Pulse […]
The Forefront of Robotics
(T) Bloomberg TV has a great new documentary about three robotic companies in Boston, the epicenter of the robotics industry in the US. The documentary “starts at iRobot, the pioneering company […]
Better Place What Went Wrong?
(B) Being able to recover quickly from mistakes is key to survival for a start-up. A great vision is just the beginning of the story. And if the luck is […]
The Latest in Data Mining
(T) Data mining: it is so much used in our daily life that we do not even realize it! From how products are displayed at Costco, so that we buy […]
Start-Ups at Stanford BASES 150K Challenge
(B) I went yesterday to Stanford University’s BASES (Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students) for their 150k Challenge. And, I had a blast! One of my favorite moments was when I met […]
Lean In with Sheryl Sandberg Interviewed at the Computer History Museum by Eric Schmidt
(E) I went yesterday, with my Dearest Friend, at the Computer History Museum listening to Sheryl Sandberg interviewed by Eric Schmidt about Lean In. The event was sold out! And, I was part […]
Kleiner Perkins Adjusts Its Strategy
(B) The New York Times has a great analysis today of the famous venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers that is worth reading: A Humbled Kleiner Perkins Adjusts its Strategy. The […]
BMC Going Private for $6.9B
(B) After Dell earlier this year, a second major LBO event for a technology firm: BMC Software, a provider of IT management software signed a definitive agreement to be acquired for […]
Investing Like David Swensen
(B) Most investors buy high and sell low when they should do the reverse. To be able to buy low and sell high, investors need to maintain contrarian positions during […]
Y Combinator W13 Demo Day
(B) Y Combinator had this week on Tuesday at the Computer History Museum, its long day event of demo presentations from its incubated Winter 2013 class. 47 start-ups presented this year compared […]
