Mojave Air and Space Port | Imagination Flies Here. Demo Videos: What are some good examples of startup product demo videos, and who made them. Payment startup Square valued at $3.25 billion. Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey FORTUNE -- After a fundraising process that lasted several months, Square, the fast growing mobile payments startup, said on Monday that it has raised more than $200 million in a new round of financing.
The investment values the company at approximately $3.25 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction, or roughly double its valuation following a $100 million financing round in the summer of 2011. Square also said that it is now processing payments at a rate of $8 billion annually, up from about $2 billion last October. Square, whose mobile payment technologies are making it ever easier for consumers to do away with cash, began its fundraising effort this spring. MORE: iPhone 5 sets a sales record Square's investors include Citi Ventures, the venture capital arm of Citigroup (C), Rizvi Traverse Management, and Starbucks Coffee (SBUX).
Long tail. An example of a power law graph showing popularity ranking. To the right (yellow) is the long tail; to the left (green) are the few that dominate. In this example, the areas of both regions are equal. In statistics, a long tail of some distributions of numbers is the portion of the distribution having a large number of occurrences far from the "head" or central part of the distribution. The distribution could involve popularities, random numbers of occurrences of events with various probabilities, etc.[1] A probability distribution is said to have a long tail, if a larger share of population rests within its tail than would under a normal distribution.
A long-tail distribution will arise with the inclusion of many values unusually far from the mean, which increase the magnitude of the skewness of the distribution.[2][3] A long-tailed distribution is a particular type of heavy-tailed distribution. Statistical meaning[edit] Chris Anderson and Clay Shirky[edit] Academic research[edit] BrickArms.
Welcome To Scaled Composites. Burt Rutan. Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He designed the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the sub-orbital spaceplane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for becoming the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the realm of space twice within a two-week period. He has five aircraft on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., United States: SpaceShipOne, the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, Voyager, Quickie, and the VariEze.[1] Life and career[edit] Born in 1943 in Estacada, Oregon, 30 miles southeast of Portland, and raised in Dinuba, California, Rutan displayed an early interest in aircraft design.
In 1982, Beechcraft contracted Rutan's Scaled Composites to refine the design and build the prototype Beechcraft Starship. Homebuilts[edit] Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity to enable it to achieve greater value and service by exchanging data with the manufacturer, operator and/or other connected devices. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. The term “Internet of Things” was first documented by a British visionary, Kevin Ashton, in 1999.[1] Typically, IoT is expected to offer advanced connectivity of devices, systems, and services that goes beyond machine-to-machine communications (M2M) and covers a variety of protocols, domains, and applications.[2] The interconnection of these embedded devices (including smart objects), is expected to usher in automation in nearly all fields, while also enabling advanced applications like a Smart Grid.[3] Early history[edit] In its original interpretation,[when?]
Media[edit] Network of Things. FCC Approves The Pebble Watch, So Where Is It? Although its creators have yet to announce a solid release date, the Pebble watch has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission. This news comes soon after it was rumored that Apple was prepping their own smart watch, according to AllThingsD. The Pebble watch, which received more than $10 million in funding through Kickstarter, has been heavily anticipated. However, after a September ship date was missed, many have worried that the iPhone accessory would never see the light of day. FCC approval almost certainly means that Pebble is on track for release. Documents released with the approval include a user manual.
According to Pebble CEO Eric Migicovsky, Pebble was “designed with a pre-approved Bluetooth module to ease the certification process.” Earlier this month, Pebble Technology announced that the watch would include SMS and iMessage integration. Funded in May, the Pebble Watch retails for $150 and works with iOS and Android. Source: AllThingsD. Pebble. Pebble Kickstarter Watch Will Be At CES. Pebble, the smartphone-friendly watch that raised over $10 million on Kickstarter — $500,000 in the first day alone — will be at CES 2013. The Pebble is the most successful Kickstarter project of all-time, with nearly 69,000 backers — myself included. Users were drawn to the promise of the product, a wrist watch that syncs with your iPhone or Android smartphone. The idea is that you can receive notifications and access content from your phone — and its apps — via your watch.
Originally, the Pebble team planned to start shipping watches to backers in the fall of 2012. Now, it looks like the wait is coming to an end. The announcement will also be live streamed from Getpebble.com. We hope the Pebble team will be announcing general availability of the watch, as well as shipping dates for backers. Are you still excited about the Pebble watch? Photo courtesy Pebble. Meme.
A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. "[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.[3] The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek μίμημα Greek pronunciation: [míːmɛːma] mīmēma, "imitated thing", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, "to imitate", from μῖμος mimos "mime")[4] and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)[1][5] as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.
Dawkins' own position is somewhat ambiguous: he obviously welcomed N. K. History[edit] TCHO - New American Chocolate. San Francisco Chocolate Has A New Name – TCHO. Welcome to Saving for Someday! Thank you for visiting, I'm so glad you came by. I write on a number of topics, but my goals is always to be a positive part of your day. If you like what you read, you may want to subscribe for free updates via RSS or email. Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again soon! If you’re a dark chocolate lover, welcome to a slice of heaven. BabyGirl and I signed up for a tour, which you do online at their website. Right now, TCHO concentrates on Dark Chocolate. Saving for my dreams means I’ve given up a lot of the ‘little indulgences’. To see how it’s made, know that they support causes that are important to me and that such a fine product is something I can share with many of my dearest friends is one I can get behind.
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Since launching the program, patent disclosures are up an impressive 30 percent, but Coughlin thinks there are more long-term organizational benefits. Disruptive ideas, for example, are more likely to be taken seriously. "An idea on paper is easy to kill, but when you create a prototype of it and a supervisor can see it and experience it, it’s harder to say no," Coughlin says. “Once someone starts thinking creatively it’s hard to turn that off. People stop seeing problems and start seeing opportunities.” The partnership also promises to forge deeper relationships between Ford, its suppliers, and the maker community. Coughlin is a lawyer by training, But decided to temporarily trade in legal briefs for a bandsaw.
Coughlin’s group at Ford is responsible for filing patents for the company and monetizing the thousands of patents it already has. Still, the program raises some thorny legal issues for inventors. Tesla, Toyota give jolt to NUMMI plant - Business - US business - Made in America. When rival automakers Toyota and GM decided in the early 1980s to build cars together at the Northern California NUMMI auto plant, many questioned whether the unusual arrangement would work out. Nearly 30 years later, and only a month after Toyota followed GM's footsteps in abandoning the NUMMI plant, Toyota has made another surprise decision: A $50 million investment in a small startup called Tesla, which plans to make electric cars at the NUMMI plant. The 11th-hour deal announced last week marks the latest chapter in NUMMI's storied history. It also offers a rare piece of good news for Toyota, which has struggled in recent months with a spate of recalls and fallout from the wildly unpopular NUMMI plant closure.
“This is like a public relations bonanza for them,” said Robert E. Cole, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, who has followed the NUMMI story closely for decades. Initially, O'Connell said company plans to use just a small portion of the plant, he said. Tesla starts delivery out of former Nummi plant. The closure of the West Coast's last big auto plant hit Fremont like a body blow. Toyota shuttered the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. factory on April Fool's Day in 2010, wiping out 4,700 jobs.
The Japanese automaker had run the plant for 25 years as a joint venture with General Motors and didn't want to go it alone after GM spiraled into bankruptcy. Fremont's most visible employer was gone. "That was my dream job - to work at Nummi," said Ronald Simmons, 47. He had grown up in Fremont, toured the plant when he was young and finally landed a job in the factory's paint shop, working there for eight years before it closed. "So yeah, watching it shut down was heartbreaking," Simmons said. Now the plant has been reborn. Friday, Tesla Motors begins delivery of its electric luxury sedan, the Model S, built at the factory that many locals still call Nummi out of habit. "It's very exciting to see," said Simmons, whose wife also works at the plant.
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