5 reasons your startup isn't ready for crowdfunding

Now let's get one thing straight from the start: I'm a huge fan of Kickstarter, Indiegogo and the number of similar crowdfunding sites that have sprung up recently to provide capital directly to exciting business ideas.

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From Information to Understanding: Moving Beyond Search In The Age Of Siri

Editor's note: Nadav Gur is the founder and CEO of Desti, a virtual personal assistant for travel incubated by SRI. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Worldmate, the first mobile travel app. "Any fool can know. The point is to understand."

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A platform of one's own: Video Game High School takes control

What happens when a creator uses a highly-anticipated web series to launch a new website? The creators of Video Game High School found out when the highly-anticipated web series debuted on Rocket Jump - bringing millions of views to a platform they fully controlled.

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Megayacht Wars Escalate with 590-foot Monster Boat

The world's largest yacht has been commissioned by an anonymous billionaire. The 590-foot vessel will be called Azzam, which is Arabic for perseverance or determination. The builder, Lurssen, is not offering any further details of the commissioner, or the interior of the vessel.

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Tech Turns London Olympics Audience into a Gigantic TV Screen

Viewers of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics have weighed in, calling it everything from "remarkable" to "hilariously quirky," and even "embarrassing." But viewers seem to unanimously agree on the awesomeness of the event's human JumboTron, in which 70,800 people in the audience were "turned...

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