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UPDATE: My prayers have been answered! There is now an official NYC Startup Job Fair happening on Friday, April 9th at the AOL HQ, 770 Broadway. It is hosted by the NYC & Columbia Venture Communities. After last night's Hackers and Founders event, I went...
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I can think of a few ways that I could utilize SpeakerText. The site allows you to watch videos from YouTube and easily find what they're saying within the video, since it gives you a transcribed copy as you're watching it. Let's say you're checking...
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Ten Years Ago today I just had just turned nineteen. With a single semester at UC Berkeley under my belt, I was unsatisfied. I was still a virgin, but goddamnit, I wanted adventure. And so I dropped out. That was probably one of the most important and best decisions I...
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Today was an exciting day, as we (the SpeakerText team) spent the morning getting interviewed by New York Magazine for an upcoming feature on the New York startup scene. After the reporter left, I thought a bit about some of the stuff I'd said and sent her the...
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It's not by accident that everyone in the SpeakerText team has either an iPhone or a Droid. Even the hotshot college kids we hired. How did we pay them? iPhones. As Marc Andreesen told Charlie Rose: "the iPhone is the first true cellphone that is...
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You've probably never heard of Matt Mireles and Bjorn Liljequist but with a $4000 dollar budget and an engineering team paid in iPhones, the two already have Meebo founder Seth Sternberg as their advisor and praise from VC Fred Wilson. The duo's filtering...
