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Watch now: Eventbrite and ‘the luck equation’

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by on May 29, 2015 at 1:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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“Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.” Kevin Hartz, co-founder of Eventbrite, believes that this quote by Seneca embodies the recipe for success. And because history has the habit of repeating itself, we can easily find this pattern in the past. The “luck equation’ can be found in companies like YouTube and PayPal. Success is not only about building terrific platforms and great technologies, but also about capturing the moment and the opportunity when that becomes available. For PayPal, the opportunity was eBay, but sometimes the opportunity can be beyond the business scope. When the tsunami hit in 2004, YouTube was…

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Get ready for a career as a developer, with the Interactive Coding Bootcamp

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by on May 29, 2015 at 1:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

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The ability to code is one of the most valuable and sought-after skills around, with professionals earning salaries upwards of $75,000. If it appeals to you as a vocation, then you should check out the Interactive Coding Bootcamp, which readies you for the world of development work, and it currently has 92 percent off over at TNW Deals. The curriculum totals more than 33 hours of video content, and it teaches HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, front-end frameworks, databases, e-commerce, Git, and more, from the ground up. The tuition includes live screen sharing sessions with your tutor,…

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Silk Road, the dark net and still being the Bill in ‘Bill & Ted’: We talk to Alex Winter

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by on May 29, 2015 at 1:14 pm
Posted In: Alex Winter, Around the Web, Bill & Ted, downloaded, Insider, ross Ulbricht, the dark net, the deep web

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I’m on the phone with Bill from ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ and ‘Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey’. That’s the thought that kept leaping through my mind as I spoke to Alex Winter. Despite being very aware of his excellent work writing and directing documentaries – ‘Downloaded’, which told the story of Napster, and ‘The Deep Web’, which premieres on Epix on May 31 – along with features, TV shows and commercials, my childhood love of those movies was hard to ignore. But in a way, it was quite appropriate to get caught up with an assumed identity, as we were on…

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Spark is a new iOS email app for power users, with some clever ideas

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by on May 29, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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New iOS email apps these days seem split between those that want to make your inbox as simple as possible (Mailbox, Inbox by Gmail) and those throw in as many power features as possible. Microsoft’s Outlook fits that second bracket, as does Spark, a new app from popular developer Readdle. If you like your email workflow and inbox features ‘just so’, it’s worth diving in and seeing how customizable everything here is. You can choose the order of menu items, what different swipe gestures do, how archiving works and more. Options to add quick links to Amazon purchases, flight information emails…

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Social ebook platform Glose comes to Android, lets you try books for free

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by on May 29, 2015 at 12:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, ebooks, Glose

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Glose, the social platform and store for ebook lovers, has launched its Android app today. It’s also available on the Kindle Fire and Nook HD. The service now carries titles from more than 600 publishers and offers free samples — about 20 pages of each book on average — across its entire catalog. As with its iOS and Web app, you can browse Glose’s store on Android to find new books to read, add annotations and discuss them with your contacts. This works with samples too, and you’ll be able to retrieve your notes when you buy a book you’ve scribbled in.…

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