Do you have an iPad? Tags: Entrepreneurship Featured Startups Videos durham local tech wire mark cuban markcuban Yesterday I attended a Venture Capital Symposium hosted by Local Techwire that featured Mark Cuban @mcuban at the American Tobacco Complex, in Durham, NC. Other speakers included Mike Doernberg, CEO of ReverbNation, Rich Lee, Founder & CEO of Hosted Solutions, Aaron Houghton, Co-founder, iContact, Mitchell Mumma, Partner of Intersouth Partners. jotted down a few notes throughout the event that you can read below. Lack of focus. Start something you love. MORE >>

The Galaxy Tab, my tablet of choice, comes in sizes the iPad doesn't. At my last startup company, the market incumbent sued us immediately following the acquisition of patents they had gained through buying a dying market pioneer. Samsung iPhone iPad Apple android LawApple is not taking the war on iOS lying down. It's getting a little busy in Cupertino's legal counsel these days, and without suing their current nemesis, Google , outright, Apple seems to be throwing their significant market weight around. Of course it had. But it was legal, thanks to shoddy early contracts. MORE >>

Great post from Curtiss Pope , CEO/Founder of Aislefinder a NewME Accelerator startup participate about Anthony Frasier founder of Playd where he calls Anthony the new face of Black Startups. remember going over to the NewMe startup house ,and almost each time I was leaving; talking with him about a range of things: girls, music, tech, gaming, the new things he was learning about Silicon Valley. Although he did have an iPad, he never bent into the social geek pressure of having that big Apple logo emblazoned on his rig. Here’s an excerpt from the post. MORE >>

It's hard to imagine that the iPhone is only five years old and that three years ago, there was no iPad. By the same token, it's equally hard to imagine that companies like RIM , Kodak and Nokia are struggling to find true relevance with consumers as startups like Instagram , Pinterest and Fab capture the customer's attention. In the past few weeks, we've seen both Microsoft and Google come forward with their own tablets in an attempt to dethrone the iPad. In looking at a myriad of data points, it's clear that the iPad is the dominant player. million iPads. MORE >>

At the top, you slip an iPad into this two-wheeled robot, turn on FaceTime and suddenly, you can attend meetings in any office or conference room in the world that has one of these thing-a-ma-jigs. Founded in 2011 and backed by the famed startup accelerator, Y Combinator , Double Robotics (operated out of Sunnyvale, California and Miami, Florida) is focused on building and bringing to market these iPad-based telepresence robots for under two thousand dollars a piece. In 1863 something profound happened to First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar. Close encounters of the robot kind. MORE >>