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Mindstorms NXT compatible robot kit. "Featuring heavy-duty, aircraft-grade aluminum elements for construction of robotic components, TETRIX provides the ideal platform for flexible and creative robot design and building. Whether students want to build a basic square chassis robot base with a remote control or incorporate other electronics (not included) to design a highly specific autonomous robot, this system is unlimited." - Todd Sampson

"Very cool guys.... Congrats on the new launch. Can't wait to try out the threaded feature." - Todd Sampson

Recommended reading on Agile Development and programming - Todd Sampson

It’s no secret that welcoming visitors to your site that are coming from a known location increases those visitors’ primary engagement metrics. Pages per visits and time on site goes up, bounce rate goes down. - Todd Sampson

The epiphany for me was that in any company where I was running the marketing department, marketing’s number one job (its mission) would be to support sales – and to make the (commission-driven) sales VP the highest-paid person in the company. We were going to do that by turning marketing into a machine to generate end user demand, drive the that demand into our sales channels, and educate our sales channels. And the same time we were also going to do all the other strategic stuff about pricing, positioning, promotion and customer discovery and validation to help engineering understand customer needs. But sales came first. - Todd Sampson

"Not really... That seemed to be the most popular retweet formatting when I wrote the post. Lately I have seen a number of Twitter clients that built-in RT leave the colon out. Thanks for bring that up." - Todd Sampson

"Thanks Saurabh. I am hopeful that a more connected world gives greater incentive to drive more businesses (and people) to adopt that mindset." - Todd Sampson

"Spot on Ian. That's a great way of looking at it. The analogy continues to work when you look at the way teams almost always loose when they switch to defense to protect a lead in the 4th quarter." - Todd Sampson

Free open-source SQL full-text search engine - Todd Sampson

try lucene instead ... it also gives you more like this functionality ... it also support reading directly from MySQL ... Also check out Solr (its build on top of lucene) - Mani Kumar

Great post on Famery! - Todd Sampson

Interesting TED talk on value and making change. - Todd Sampson

Great video from TED 2009 - Todd Sampson

"Credentialing and accreditation in the traditional sense (diplomas) will become less important as the student's work product becomes more available to be sampled and measured online." Very interesting line. - Todd Sampson

"Our datastore stores schema-less bags of properties (e.g., JSON objects or Python dictionaries). The only required property of stored entities is id, a 16-byte UUID. The rest of the entity is opaque as far as the datastore is concerned. We can change the "schema" simply by storing new properties." - Todd Sampson

Reference for Rails Templates - Todd Sampson

"The overall methodology remained Scrum and Toyota way of working helped us to look at improving on a daily basis." - Todd Sampson

"Done! I'll just cancel his return flight from San Francisco. Please ship his family this way after you dig them out of the snow. - T P.S. I hope you will still have me for TechStars. :)" - Todd Sampson

"Screw you guys... Orlando rules! Boulder drools. Signed, The guy still pissed Boulder stole away his heterosexual business lifemate Eric." - Todd Sampson

Why don't more people buy your product... "The problem is that your prospect doesn't care about any of [your rational reasons your offering is better]. He cares about his boss or the story you're telling or the risk or the hassle of making a change. He cares about who you know and what other people will think when he tells them what he's done after he buys from you." - Todd Sampson

"The purpose of education is to make the world a better place!" - Todd Sampson

Awesome post by John Borthwick on the two latest trends on the web. - Todd Sampson

Awesome! - Todd Sampson

"...this isn't about efficiency and effectiveness and reducing waste throughout your processes. This is about choreographing what you already have (technologies, people, offerings) to better respond to your customers' needs and wants." - Todd Sampson

"We regularly get asked for the documents we use for doing early stage financings. I personally believe these documents should be able to be done on a single piece of paper and sealed with a handshake (or more preferably, a fist bump), but I’m generally alone in that view. So, we’ve worked closely with Cooley Godward Kronish, LLP (and specifically Mike Platt, who has been my go to lawyer and a close friend since I moved to Boulder in 1995) to put together a set of “Model Seed Funding Documents” that anyone can use." - Todd Sampson

"That may not sound like a big deal. But contrary to what Web evangelists and the incoming administration would like to believe, Obama's campaign was never a bottom-up endeavor. The incoming president didn't crowdsource his view on the Iraq war or use Digg to determine how to allocate campaign dollars. He ran one of the most tightly controlled, top-down campaigns in modern history, to the point of pressuring outside advocacy groups not to advertise on his behalf. Rather, he asked his supporters for money and inspired them to get involved, giving them the tools to organize themselves and a message to sign on to." - Todd Sampson

"All of the shuttered projects failed several of Google’s key tests for continued incubation: They were not especially popular with customers; they had difficulty attracting Google employees to develop them; they didn’t solve a big enough problem; or they failed to achieve internal performance targets known as 'objectives and key results.'"... Bradly Horowitz, nice quotes! - Todd Sampson

"We all knew that we were going to change the world with this thing that no one else understood. That day stands out in memory as the deep breath before a baby’s first cry." - Todd Sampson

"Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. The wearer can summon virtual gadgets and internet data at will, then dispel them like smoke when they're done." - Todd Sampson

An overview of the new imageless, multi-function buttons used by Google on Gmail, Google Calendar and Docs. Super-slick gradient technique. - Todd Sampson

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