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

via Advice on Living the Creative Life from Neil Gaiman | Brain Pickings

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

via The ‘quantified self’ movement grows, but what are we really learning about ourselves? – The Boston Globe

“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 .”

via Fred Wilson And The Death Of Venture Capital – Forbes

“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.”

via Trend: Wearable health devices on the rise | mobihealthnews

“It could be seen as somewhat ironic that Google is addressing what has been a key criticism leveled at it by its chief search competitor, Microsoft Bing. The software giant ran a series of scathing commercials, which while never mentioning Google by name, depicted the search results most people get as comically lacking context. Most people understood that the criticism and joke was aimed at Google, and now Google is doing something about the quality of its results.”

via Google Knowledge Graph Could Change Search Forever