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The Start-Up

Beautiful Code

Sadie Hayes

Critical Acclaim for The Start-Up

”Who knew Silicon Valley could be sexy? Sadie Hayes' debut ebook series The Start-Up describes the real side of Silicon Valley and how its power corrupts You will tear through this page-turner and will be begging forof Adam and Amelia Dory's climb to wealth and power This fast-paced novel has provocative characters trying to figure out how to navigate a world controlled by money and bad intentions I dare you to put it down!” Becky Julian ”Silicon Valley and cliffhangers e bedfellows, but Palo Alto writer Sadie Hayes debut, The Start-Up, is an unexpectedly addictive new novel that co: a serial eNovel with monthly new releases planned” Gary Griffiths ”Sadie Hayes is on her way to beco a new kind of bestseller - an eBook bestseller” Grady Harp ”Exciting, entertaining, and informative - The Start-Up is a must read for anyone interested in the fast paced worlds of entrepreneurshi+p, Silicon Valley, and venture capital” -JR Sedivy, Chairman and CEO, analytika, Inc

”A well-crafted, fast- tale of the conflict which arises when honesty and integrity confront the wealth and oft-corrupted power of the high-tech world of Silicon Valley An excellent read” Frederick J Masterman, author of Season of the Plant ”Sadie Hayes provides a screen shot of technology's sordid underbelly in this riveting e-book novella” Bill Bentri is spectacular and absolutely breath-taking! The way the story was presented was like watching afor hly recommend it This is a fun and fast-pace novel that I think hly enjoy!” Jess, Sit Here and Read ”Sadie Hayes has blown enreget to your nearest Ereader device and buy these books” Courtney Wyant, Courtney's Book Nook ”The Start-Up is a short read, and the dialogue is sharply realistic This story is so Adult fiction, so it's different and unique I highly reco, pretentious college students who are involved in the business world I' the second installment, The Anti-Social Network” Lauren Nicole, Books From a Shelf ”The Start Up is particularly awesoht and funny and carefree, yet it still reminded us of the sinister ways of society It was terrifically ritten, and extre!” Dana Hilgers, Dana Does Read ”Deep-seated greed and corruption intricately blended with naivety and intelligence, The Start Up by Sadie Hayes, is sharp, fun and full of angsty draal corporate tactics sing fro us of the money to be et that money” Jen, In the Closet with a Bibliophile ”I loved these novellas! The Start-Up and The Anti-Social Network are, in reat YA genre in the future because the topic of advancing technology is extreood This read was a breath of fresh air A brand nepoint on our favorite type of YA guilty pleasure” Sara Oestreich, The Librarian Reads ”A new series that co and glamorous life of the wealthyI a you could want in a modern day series [and] will draw many male and female fans a like”

”The Start-Up picks an ideal topic for ebook serial fiction, with genius programmer Amelia Dorey persuaded by her rams into dollars” Sheila Deeth ”This pure CW teen drama in a lot of ways - it's the problele relationshi+ps, drama, and school And yetI can't deny that I was absolutely addicted to the first two parts of this series As aof The Green Mile and brings it into the digital age, both literally and figuratively” Joshua Mauthe ”AHHH! Not again! Just as good as the first, or e and then tried to flip the virtual page, I was like ”Noooo!” The novels are hilarious, sweet, scandalous, and super aweso from ear to ear the entire time! I hope Hayes keeps up with the series, because I aers, Dana Does Read ”Book two of the Start-Up is another interesting story arc in the tale of coenius Amelia and her ether Guided by the wise, preyed on by the foolish, but never quite sure of their place in this high-finance world, they're approaching the point where their wonder-product will be announced” Sheila Deeth ”Similar to the first installment, The Anti-Social Network is built upon a foundation of true experience Although the characters and story are fiction, the the or twoThe Anti-Social Network has a perspective of their acceptance of entrepreneurshi+p and subsequent e, to an early and ultie This realisticallythey have the burning desire, faith, and persistence to stay the course and rise to each ever increasing challenge” JR Sedivy, Chairman and CEO, analytika, Inc

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Doreye, Inc

Doreye (pronounced ”Door-Eye”) is a downloadable device and object recognition application created by Amelia Dory and her brother Adam Dory In an intervieith TechCrunch, Amelia called Doreye, ”A remote control for the physical world” The application uses the phone's native antenna and circuitry to receive and broadcast signals across a wider spectrum of frequencies than the manufacturers intended As a result, Doreye currently allows the user to ”see and control” any electronic device with their phone-televisions, garage doors and even microwaves are accessible via Doreye

Apple CEO Tiifted an early alpha version, called Doreye, ”physically impossible I'd sooner believe the Loch Ness monster exists before I would believe Doreye exists And, yet, here I a it to unlock my car” The limitations of what is and isn't possible doesn't see the horizons of Doreye Later this year, Doreye will be able to recognize and find inanimate objects ”Like how a bat uses sonar,” Anals and a sleek, lightweight AI (artificial intelligence) to recognize things like your keys, your car or even your friends

Amelia Dory holds over a dozen patents related to Doreye She co-founded the company with her twin brother Adam Dory, who is the company's COO and head of Business Developo while freshmen at Stanford Both hail froanization/fenway-ventures

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Fenway Ventures is a venture fund that focuses on seed and Series A investments to start-up companies The fund also runs a start-up incubator, which is designed to speed the develop al support

Fenway Ventures is currently incubating two early-stage coht uses advances in plastics technology to create eyewear that affordably prevents glaucoma in third world inhabitants Doreye is a revolutionary software that the valley has deele;” it transforms anyone's cell phone into both a renition ”radar” for inanimate objects

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Founder Tom Fenway is one of Silicon Valley's most prolific investors and philanthropists His Kadence music service formed the backbone of Apple's iTunes as well as Final Cut Pro, and inspired ators He is particularly known for his laid-back aesthetic, notoriously wearing flip-flops to high profile s

analyst T J Bristol handles supervision as well as business support for Fenway's incubator He assists the founders inFormerly an intern at Goldman Sachs, T J is the son of Ted Bristol, one of Silicon Valley's biggest venture investors T J graduated from Stanford, where his father Ted is a trustee and his sister Lisa is currently a freshs/vokins-Bronson

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Shandi Marie Hawkins and Chad Sebastian Bronson

By: Margot Langsford

Shandi Marie Hawkins and Chad Sebastian Bronson are to be married at noon on Saturday at the Hibiscus Grove, on the island of Maui, Hawaii The Rev Frederick Wilton, an Episcopal priest, will officiate

The bride, 23, will take her husband's na her Master of Art History froree this past May She is the daughter of Ronald and Chloe Hawkins of Atherton, California The bride's sister Patricia Hawkins, a sophomore at Stanford University, will serve ashis MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business He is the son of Bradley Fitzgerald Bronson and Vivian Wells-Bronson of Darien, Connecticut Before attending Stanford, he worked as an associate at Deutsche Bank, and received his AB in Econoo at the annual Young Patrons of Lincoln Center charity ball

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Secrecy Shrouds Gibly Sale and Court Proceedings

By: Steven Messing

In the world of technology, a single blog post can turn success into failure

Last June, Gibly, Inc was on the verge of being sold to Lloyd's (LLYLl) for 38 billion in as immediately heralded as the best return on investment in tech to date Gibly's lead investor and de facto CEO Ted Bristol considered the sale to Lloyd's his swan song, and Silicon Valley awarded it as the crowning achievement to Bristol's remarkable career

Days after the announcement and out of the blue, TechCrunch broke the tech story of the decade Gibly was known for being a rera fro payments with one's cell phone The article by TechCrunch revealed Gibly's much more secretive function ATechCrunch-that Gibly was actually constructed to create a database of users' private information Over one hundred million users had their passwords, home addresses, credit card information and more stored in the Gibly server

The deal was put on hold indefinitely and Gibly was immediately the subject of both a class action suit and a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Co, Ted Bristol was unavailable for comment

Rumors abound as to the identity of the mystery hacker who took down Gibly, as well as his roup Anonymous, while others point towards a covert teas claiineer froer with tile-handedly cost Silicon Valley's best investors billions of dollars and their reputations

What Gibly was really up to-or why the sale to Lloyds was siether-is as much a mystery as the identity of the mystery hacker