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It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

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Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

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The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

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In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

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If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 3rd, 1959

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