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Curated News - Reebok taps MC10 for wearable device to launch this year | mobihealthnews

May 30, 2012

“If you think about how data is collected from the body, it’s by using clunky straps and boxy equipment. MC10 is focused on advancing that so it’s seamless, thin, invisible to the user and scalable for large scale manufacturing,” Icke said.”

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Curated News - Facebook’s Brilliant Disaster - NYTimes.com

May 29, 2012

“virtually everyone who bought Facebook on that first day was making a one-day, get-rich-quick calculation. It didn’t work out. Too bad.”

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Curated News - Facebook’s Brilliant Disaster - NYTimes.com

May 29, 2012

“What it doesn’t reflect is where Facebook will be 5 or 10 years from now. I could easily make a bullish case for Facebook — with its 900 million users, and its wise-beyond-his-years chief executive. I could just as easily make a bearish case: Maybe Facebook will never figure out mobile. Maybe its moment will pass before it ever becomes the kind of technology juggernaut that Microsoft once was, or Google is. But being either bullish or bearish requires making a judgment that is years away from being revealed.”

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Curated News - Facebook’s Brilliant Disaster - NYTimes.com

May 29, 2012

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Curated News - Advice on Living the Creative Life from Neil Gaiman | Brain Pickings

May 28, 2012

“Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid, or evil, or it’s all been done before? Make good art.”

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Curated News - Crowdfunding via customers is the new startup capital — Tech News and Analysis

May 28, 2012

“Between providing early access to capital, testing new ideas in real time and potentially growing the entire pool of startup capital astronomically, the emergence of crowdfunding customer capital is about to change the startup game in a big way.”

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Curated News - Crowdfunding via customers is the new startup capital — Tech News and Analysis

May 28, 2012

“Crowdfunding is just one indicator, but at least it’s feedback from real customers – not theoretical feedback from pundits.”

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Curated News - The ‘quantified self’ movement grows, but what are we really learning about ourselves? - The Boston Globe

May 28, 2012

“As for me, after a week of walking around with a FitBit clipped to my pocket, I realized that I had come to believe that the thumb-size piece of hardware actually cared how I did. As if it were my supervisor in a sales job, its compensation package based on my success. When I realized that final day of our vacation would involve a two-hour drive to Los Angeles and then a five-plus-hour flight, I was panicky about all the sitting.”

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Curated News - Fred Wilson And The Death Of Venture Capital - Forbes

May 28, 2012

“Wilson, a partner at Union Square Ventures, asked the audience to consider this scenario: if U.S. families devote just 1% of their assets to investing in startups via crowdfunding, that would unleash a torrent of $300 billion annually. “The problems with venture capital now are dwarfed by the potential problems down the line,” he observes. Even with just $40-$50 billion aimed at financing scalable startups (the sum of the sources listed above), VC’s can’t beat the markets. With nearly ten times that amount of capital let loose, the attractiveness of venture capital as an asset class will only deteriorate further .”

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Curated News - Trend: Wearable health devices on the rise | mobihealthnews

May 28, 2012

“The device communicates to a nearby smartphone via short range wireless, which can then relay the data to care providers. The cuff-less sensors can monitor blood pressure, body temperature, respiratory rate, oxygen consumption, neural activity, ECG, and more, according to the research team.”

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“If you think about how data is collected from the body, it’s by using clunky straps and boxy equipment. MC10 is focused on advancing that so it’s seamless, thin, invisible to the user and scalable for large scale manufacturing,” Icke said.”

“virtually everyone who bought Facebook on that first day was making a one-day, get-rich-quick calculation. It didn’t work out. Too bad.”

“Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid, or evil, or it’s all been done before? Make good art.”

“Between providing early access to capital, testing new ideas in real time and potentially growing the entire pool of startup capital astronomically, the emergence of crowdfunding customer capital is about to change the startup game in a big way.”

“Crowdfunding is just one indicator, but at least it’s feedback from real customers – not theoretical feedback from pundits.”

“The device communicates to a nearby smartphone via short range wireless, which can then relay the data to care providers. The cuff-less sensors can monitor blood pressure, body temperature, respiratory rate, oxygen consumption, neural activity, ECG, and more, according to the research team.”