"Silicon Valley Connection" in the start-up parochial listen to the scientific and technological elite talk about entrepreneurial experience

In the daily link to the Silicon Valley, the most fresh information! The "Silicon Valley" here refers to the typical and innovative business representatives abroad.

1. Startup parochial: A celebrity in the science and technology industry tells the entrepreneurial experience

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Startup parochial is a party organized by the famous incubator company Y Combinator. It mainly faces new entrepreneurs. At the party, the scientific and technological community will share their experience in investing and starting a business. This is the seventh session of the party, Evernote founder Phil Libin, angel investor Ron Conway, and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey share their experiences.

Phil Libin says the co-founder is important. Evernote is his third start-up. In every entrepreneurial process, his team "is very, very good, highly enthusiastic, willing to work for free, the best friends in life." If you and someone in real life can not become friends, then should not be with him to start a business.

2. Apple recalls the MacBook Air mainland official statement in English

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With the built-in SSD hard drive hidden, Apple will recall the MacBook Air, which was sold from June 2012 to June 2013, with 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air having 64GB and 128GB two versions, so the industry believes the recall will be significant. The Chinese mainland's official recall statement in English was also questioned as not good enough for localization and not enough sincerity for mainland Chinese consumers.

The recall is intended for global users, so a free replacement can be made whenever an SSD drive detects a hidden problem in a recall-covered MacBook Air that is purchased in the mainland market or other markets.

3. Tesla motor will be working with AT&T to provide wireless network support

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Beijing time October 20, according to foreign media reports, Tesla (Tesla) and at&t to cooperate!

Tesla has reportedly chosen At&t as an Internet service provider in the automotive industry. According to the cooperation agreement between the two sides, At&t will provide many wireless network functions for Model S EV. "We have been working with at&t and they have been Model S service providers," said a spokesman for Tesla. Tesla is installing the AT&T network chip, which allows users to browse the Internet, navigation and other entertainment content, which will be displayed by the 17-inch touch screen built into the car. In addition, the chip will provide roadside assistance and stolen vehicles located in the location of the two major functions.

4. New Apple exposure: two MacBook Pro+ipad 5

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Apple will release its new Retina display MacBook Pro, 5th-generation ipad and redesigned Mac Pro desktops next week, according to foreign media reports. Products such as the 13 and 15-inch Retina display MacBook Pro, the retina display 5th generation ipad, and Mac Pro will be upgraded, according to inventory information from Apple's channel dealers. But the ipad Mini and Apple TV stocks are plentiful, and the upgrade is unlikely.

However, sources said the 329-dollar 16GB WiFi version of the ipad Mini and the 429-dollar 32GB WiFi version of the ipad mini inventory levels remain high, but there is widespread feeling that the ipad mini supply is tight. This may indicate that Apple plans to retain several non-Retina display ipad Mini, after the new Retina display ipad Mini is released at a lower price, so as to open up the low-end market.

5. Silicon Valley High-fidelity and white-rich high-end matchmaker: Linx dating

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Emmy, who worked at Merrill Lynch, began more than 10 years ago to notice that many of the most qualified Silicon Valley bachelors could not be found, while San Francisco had many excellent single women who could not find a boyfriend to marry, and observant of her, began to want to pull the two groups together. After three years of market research, she finally decided in 2003 to resign her well-paid job, creating a--linx dating, a matchmaker company dedicated to high-end people.

To become an Amy's client is not so easy, I have several conditions around the good friend was she refused. With too many female clients looking for her, she only received male clients for a while to maintain gender balance. Even so, the Silicon Valley fans have to weigh their weight, because in addition to rigorous screening, the basic membership fee is 20,000 dollars. In order to maintain their uniqueness and the high quality of customers, Linx customer base of more than 80% are recommended by word of mouth. After receiving the customer, she will send out a preliminary screening questionnaire, which is very important to the education level. "The degree of education determines the client's intentions, values and attitudes towards life," she explains. "Although there is no limit to the elite, but Amy also has customers only want to find Ivy League graduates of the date, and even customers strictly designated as long as tenured, Harvard."

6. Twitter's long-standing problem: the loss of small audiences and users

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Twitter's experience with Twitter is a cautionary tale for investors, which is expected to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange in November, which has become America's most anticipated IPO this year. Among the 1067 Twitter users surveyed, 36% said they had an account but didn't use it, and 7% said they had written off their accounts, according to a survey by Reuters and the research agency, Ipsos (Ipsos). By comparison, only 7% per cent of the 2,499 Facebook users surveyed said they had not used Facebook as an online social service, and 5% per cent said they had written off their accounts.

Twitter's user churn highlights a problem that has plagued the online Web site for years: While Twitter has struggled to win over many well-known and loyal users, such as the Pope and U.S. President Barack Obama, Twitter has not yet become mainstream like Facebook. To make Twitter an integral part of their lives, Twitter is the key to attracting advertisers and making profits.

7. Google Hangouts application upgrade can be free to call the Internet

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This Friday, Google (Weibo) Hangouts iOS version of the application released an important upgrade, added the call function. The call to the United States and Canada is completely free, call other country numbers will charge a certain fee, but compared to international long-distance, it will be very cheap. This means that users who already have Google Voice account will be able to use Google Hangouts to make and receive calls at the same time. As a result, users will not need an expensive iPhone if they have a data connection or WiFi, and they can do it with the ipod Touch and IPad.

It is understood that the use of hangouts dial out of the phone will show the user's Google Voice number, and Google Voice access to the phone will be through Google Hangouts Bell. However, Google Voice users have already forwarded the voice number to a regular mobile phone, which will also cause trouble, that is, when the caller received two rings: one from the iphone application, the other from the hangouts. So, Google Voice users will only be able to bind their accounts with mobile phones on a regular basis.

8. Silhouette App: Turn mobile photo One key into exquisite video

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With the development of mobile Internet, mobile app is gradually satisfying the demand that can be reached even replace traditional PC software. The process is not a simple-or-just substitution, but a rethink of the solution: which is better for mobile platforms and more for traditional PC platforms. In this wave, mobile phone platform has a natural "mobile" and "location" attributes, to the needs of the solution has brought a lot of interesting places. Today's "Silhouette" app is one of those features that makes it easy for people to share the tools needed to make video.

The Silhouette app is a simple and intelligent application that converts a group of photos on a mobile phone to exquisite video. The sketch app is a very stupid, intelligent, and fluid-making process. Into the app, click to make the movie, the sketch will be based on the phone photos of the time and location of the elements, automatically will be the user in a certain period of the film filmed as a group, ready to enter the next step of the production process. Of course, users can also choose manually.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)