This is part 1 of the series: 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman’s 10-day forecast. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Every pitch has a section on competitive advantages, and quite literally 95% of the time

A coalition of clean energy organizations hired experts to model alternatives, and found adding a single gas plant alongside a mix of existing plants, energy storage, efficiency and demand response, and market purchases that could avoid the risk of stranded assets.

Canon just updated its top camera in the entry-level Rebel DSLR line, finally adding a feature that's been on equivalent Nikon's for a while: continuous autofocus while shooting video. The EOS Rebel T4i will keep your subject in focus while recording video, and it does so in an intelligent way. As long as you have one of Canon's new Stepping Motor lenses, the continuous autofocus is said to be whi

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Celebrate World Oceans Day by Taking a Virtual Dive in theBlu To help celebrate World Oceans Day on Friday, take an online dive in theBlu, a socially connected virtual ocean that's modeled on global waters from the Atlantic Ocean to the Baltic Sea. TheBlu is one part social network, one part online game and a splash of oceanic activism. Users can explore an entire underwater world replete with tho

Microsoft’s popular Hotmail client appears to be getting a Windows 8-style Metro makeover, according to screenshots leaked to Microsoft-focused site Liveside. Hotmail is the largest webmail client by users in the world with about 350 million accounts, far above Yahoo’s 300 million and Gmail’s 250 million. But Hotmail has not been radically redesigned in years, so it makes sense that a facelift is

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