Sentences with phrase «of tech scene»

Despite the hype around a few incredible dropout success stories, the vast majority of startup founders complete college, and a whole host of tech scene veterans (with the notable exception of Peter Thiel) say that, given the huge uncertainty inherent in the startup game, it's generally wise for aspiring founders to finish their degrees.

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The biggest question mark that remains is just how much of the money from Snap's IPO will get funneled back into the Los Angeles tech scene.

Etsy is one of the biggest players in the NYC tech scene and, despite what its CEO says, it feels like an IPO could be just around the corner.

Insiders believe a slew of big - money exits will strengthen the scene by funding new tech entrepreneurship

This is done through the use of 360 - degree video and / or virtual re-enactments of a scene broadcast onto a headset like the Oculus Rift (which is owned by Facebook (FB)-RRB-, or even using low - tech means like the Google (GOOG) Cardboard viewer, which essentially just holds a smartphone in front of the watcher's eyes.

It's one of the reasons Canada's strong startup scene isn't translating into a mature tech industry: we need more anchor companies.

But it was also appealing to become part of an emerging tech scene, instead of staying in one that's established and harder to change.

One set of presentations will be a series of case studies of 10 cities with thriving tech scenes, such as Jerusalem and Nairobi.

The ranking compares the seven hottest startup scenes in the U.S. across measures that matter most to new entrepreneurs: median tech - employee earnings, maximum personal income tax, property tax, the cost of housing and the cost of office space.

Here, a behind - the - scenes look at some of the entrepreneurs engaging in the new tech ecosystem.

Mark McQueen, president and CEO of venture firm Wellington Financial in Toronto, recalls asking Balsillie at a conference a few years ago about what RIM was doing to help grow the tech scene in the region.

But behind the scenes as CES — touted to be the world's largest tech trade show — was in full swing with major tech announcements from all of Apple's competitors, the company still featured prominently in the news cycle.

While other metropolitan areas get more attention for their tech scenes, Chicago has quietly become a hotbed of innovative start - ups.

Anyone who thinks that the life of a start - up tech entrepreneur is all glitz and glamour may want to take a look at this behind - the - scenes video of a typical day in the life of a young tech company.

The model was born in the U.S. tech scene, where startups adopted flat reporting structures out of lean necessity.

Cities like Toronto and Vancouver have strong startup scenes, but Canada's growing tech firms have struggled to secure the kind of money thrown around in Silicon Valley.

Robert Nielsen likes to say that the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus is situated at the center of the city's tech start - up scene.

Tucked away on a quiet street amid the canals and old buildings of central Amsterdam, the head offices of Adyen reflect its reputation as one of the tech industry's biggest behind - the - scenes companies.

As investor appetite improves and the Big Apple's tech scene continues to mature, analysts expect New York City to become a hub of tech IPO activity in coming years.

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«This data backs up the feeling those of us on the inside have had for a while — that the U.K. tech scene is exploding,» commented Pete Smith, co-founder of Silicon Milkroundabout.

As for Frind, the hyper - efficient entrepreneur plans to use part of his wealth to invest in startups to bolster the country's tech scene, which he figures is about an hour - a-day job.

The move is part of Google's ambition to grow Indonesia's digital economy and start - up scene, the tech giant said in a statement Monday.

But this lack of sizzle in the Greek scene also offers advantages to founders there, namely the available tech talent in the country.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

As one of the nation's fastest growing cities, Seattle's housing market is hot, driven in part by a booming tech scene.

I spoke with LeBrun about the importance of networking events like CIX to the Canadian tech scene, how his job has changed since the acquisition and how social technology is changing how we do business.

Now an angel investor who largely invests in female founders, Fran was named one of Refinery29's «6 Most Powerful Women in NYC's Tech Scene» and one of Business Insider's «30 Women In Venture Capital to Watch in 2018.»

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

Having spent much of last spring touring the remarkable and little - reported - on tech startup communities in the Middle East — from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai — I was excited to see that no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.

Austin is known for a lot of things: being a tech hub, having a killer music scene, and, well, weirdness.

Explaining the results of the new research, CEO of IT Juzi Li Jingwang told TechNode that the winter China's tech scene is facing is not a winter on the «capital side» — it is a winter on the «asset side,» or the startups themselves.

Although Chengdu's tech scene is still not comparable to Beijing's, it is drawing more startups and talents as the tech hub of southwestern China.

But the pitch as a tech company alongside a real estate company may be a bit easier as he says WeWork has a lot of analysis going on behind the scenes to make sure spaces are optimized.

Many of its homegrown internet companies are increasingly dominating the global tech scene — not only...

Beneath the turmoil and unrest that has seized much of the Middle East, there is a burgeoning tech scene offering a nugget of hope in a place where creativity can be a luxury and basic survival is often a challenge.

The gold rush has inspired a wave of tech startups, like Klout, that are looking to help firms navigate the tricky social - ad scene.

To quote my friend Shannon: «It [blockchain tech] definitely seems like it has a Linux - like adoption arc ahead of it: There's going to be a bunch of doomed attempts to make it a commercially viable consumer product while it gains dominance in vital behind - the - scenes applications.»

After almost a year of work behind the scenes, the tech giant at a price recently on 7.5 billion dollars, has introduced a tool designed to test the performance of the main Blockchainów, which are currently being prepared for formal submission to the Hyperledger consortium, whose leader is the Linux Foundation.

«If you wanted to be in Texas, a city like Austin, that has Whole Foods, a thriving tech and arts scene and a creative environment, would seem a better fit,» said Jeff Shulman, a professor of marketing at the University of Washington in Seattle.

As part of an ongoing initiative to better educate the broader community about Ripple technology, behind the scenes developments, as well as our take on the industry at large, Ripple Labs will be releasing a series a tech talks, the first of which is an introduction to Codius.

Taking offices near the surf shops and beach hotels, are now dynamic early - stage transplants, such as SouceFuse Technologies and Inventory Source, which both relocated from Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as some extremely promising new startups like JustOrbMe.com which is a locally grown product of Jacksonville's tech - scene.

Early - stage businesses are taking advantage of Jacksonville's emerging startup scene, and it's inexpensive business and labor costs, low taxes, a young population and an attractive quality of life entice entrepreneurs from around the country in ways that the more established tech - hubs of California and New York can not.

The first decade of the 21st century, however, would bear witness to a spectacular turning point in the private launch timeline: the arrival on the scene of disruptive billionaire tech entrepreneurs with some truly ostentatious rocket - powered ambitions.

It is a significant award and prove of trust to the advancing Vietnamese hi - tech startup scene, which enables us to close such strategic international partnerships with world - wide industry - leading companies like Coinify.

Networking is a huge part of what we do in Venture Capital and we think this is a great opportunity to start building a presence in the NYC tech scene.

He has been involved in the Vancouver tech scene for over a decade and was part of the committee that brought the first Startup Weekend to Vancouver.

Garrett Camp, mostly known as the billionaire founder of Uber, was well on the tech scene before he even started the rideshare company.

No RL, what I'm getting at is everyone is a cell, or a fish, or a monkey for billions of years... then for a few more million, man suddenly comes on the scene... a billion more go by and walla... in the last 150 years, we have the industrial revolution, and then the 20th century high tech explosion.

Two of our four panelists were involved on the media side of Occupy Wall Street, while the other two were on the tech scene at Occupy...