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Kleiner Perkins Backs Former Hulu CTO Eric Feng’s Social Startup Erly | TechCrunch

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Kleiner Perkins is announcing a new investment this morning in stealth company Erly. Interestingly, Eric Feng, newly appointed partner at KPCB and previously founding CTO of Hulu, is starting the new new social company with two other former Hulu employees, Eugene Wei and Andrew Lin, who were previously Head of Product and Head of Engineering at Hulu, respectively.

Nicolas Nguyen onto Kleiner Perkins
Founded by Hulu CTO.

Kleiner Perkins Closes On $525 Million For Its 15th Venture Fund, ‘KPCB 15′ | TechCrunch

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Startups

Kleiner Perkins Closes On $525 Million For Its 15th Venture Fund, ‘KPCB 15′ | TechCrunch

Silicon Valley venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers is announcing this evening that it has closed on a $525 million round for its fifteenth venture fund, dubbed ‘KPCB 15.’ The fund will be headed up by 10 managing members: Mike Abbott, Chi-Hua Chien, Amol Deshpande, John Doerr, Bing Gordon, Wen Hsieh, Randy Komisar, Matt Murphy, Beth Seidenberg, and Ted Sc...

Nicolas Nguyen onto Startups
A lot of money are going around for startups. Kick some over to Wordever.

Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D’Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money | TechCrunch

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Startups

Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D’Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money | TechCrunch

Q&A site Quora has raised $50 million at a $400 million pre-money valuation according to a report by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed to me by the founders themselves. We had reported that Quora was raising in this range back in April and it looks like Facebook board member Peter Thiel has beat out many other investors including a much-rumored KPCB to lea...

Nicolas Nguyen onto Startups
That's a lot of users through Facebook Connect.

(101) Quora: How did Quora build traffic from launch? - Quora

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Marketing Strategies

The site was private and invite-only to start and was seeded with incredible, once-private or gated knowledge. The company perfectly harnessed the (free) distributive power of Twitter, both by capturing questions/conversations from Twitter as well as creating separate Quora topic accounts, each with a specific Twitter handle. The company, in December 2010, was pretty aggressive (some may ...

Nicolas Nguyen onto Marketing Strategies
Creating a topic for every twitter account could be a good start.

In pictures: Oil issues unite rain forest natives with Northern Alberta aboriginals - The Globe and Mail

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Safe, Healthy and Just Canada

In pictures: Oil issues unite rain forest natives with Northern Alberta aboriginals - The Globe and Mail

From left, Puwaanch Kintui Antich, Jiyukam Irar Miik, Peas Peas Ayui, and Ampush Ayui Chayat. They are leaders of the Achuar indigenous people from the rain forest in Peru flew. They flew 8,000 kilometres to beseech Talisman Energy Inc., the Calgary-based oil and gas conglomerate, to stop drilling in their territory. But first, they wanted to see a Canadian oil patch for themselves, and meet th...

Anita Chakrabarti onto Safe, Healthy and Just Canada
Conscience to Power

Welcome to Stop Child Executions

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Safe, Healthy and Just Canada

Article 37 (a) of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without the possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age.

Anita Chakrabarti onto Safe, Healthy and Just Canada
Conscience to Power

Nicolas Nguyen I agree.

80,000 subscribers reveal what they want most of all - stronger self confidence - on Mental Health Exposed

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PickTheBrain

80,000 subscribers reveal what they want most of all - stronger self confidence - on Mental Health Exposed

This week's show is inspired by Erin Falconer's survey of her 80,000+ newsletter subscribers at PickTheBrain.com, one of the web's most traveled personal development blogs. Erin and her partner, Barrie Davenport of LiveBoldandBloom.com, asked readers what they wanted most out of their personal development efforts. The number one answer: Self-confidence.

Olivia White onto PickTheBrain
my new interview and article with Mental Health Exposed!

Nicolas Nguyen Erin, you are so famous.

Olivia White Right??!

Coffee linked to lower risk of death - latimes.com

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Health

Coffee linked to lower risk of death - latimes.com

Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can't get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer. A new study that tracked the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for nearly 14 years found that java drinkers were less likely t...

Tom Nguyen onto Health
And I thought it was bad for me

The Work

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Know Thyself

The Analyst must dream what destroys the patient's dreams, and since the analyst may or may not be much better at this than the patient, the analysis turns on two people becoming partners in evolution, doing work that all humanity must come to do. In other words, part of the long-term work involves becoming real to ourselves and to each other and the profound ethics this implies. Michael Eige...

Anita Chakrabarti onto Know Thyself
The Work

Nicolas Nguyen Looks like the image didn't show up. Let me fix this.

Nicolas Nguyen Should be fixed now.

Anita Chakrabarti That's great - thanks!

Nicolas Nguyen You are welcome.

Telephone | THE OFFICE VERSION (Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Spoof) -CompanyQuad.com - YouTube

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fun

Telephone | THE OFFICE VERSION (Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Spoof) -CompanyQuad.com - YouTube

interesting

Jennifer Huynh onto fun
telephone in office

Wordever is all about topics.

Discover and create topics that you care about.