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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. It turns out it's not just a quick line of code to send an email -- it's also a hassle to make sure that those emails get delivered, that your email isn't classified as spam, and handling all sorts of delivery issues.

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Brian Coryat, ValueClick Founder And Internet Pioneer: Startups Should Wing It

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Talking To Yahoo''s Jerry Yang. Brian began his interest in the Internet in 1994, as a means of selling his publishing company''s books. He had previously placed classified ads in newspapers and then mailed the books to purchasers. In His Dorm. and it was run by some college students up north (at) Stanford. Mining The Miners.

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Toronto Based Start Up Readitfor.me | Reads Books for You

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Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! In most offices there would be a shelf of business books. Since, I am constantly reading to learn I would always ask questions about advice from the books. The video was meant to be an engaging 10 minute video to summarize a valuable book. Time is money.

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8 Organizational Cultures Boost Output And Cut Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

An exception is the classic book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight on this subject. They point to several key trends in organizational cultures and working practices that can boost output, cut costs, and give employees more freedom.

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Geni Adds "Family Finder"

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Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources.

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8 Work Trends Driven By New Ventures And Competition

Startup Professionals Musings

An exception is the classic book by Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson, “ Future Work: Changing Organizational Culture for the New World of Work ,” which offers some real insight on this subject. They point to several key trends in organizational cultures and working practices that can boost output, cut costs, and give employees more freedom.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! That was back when VCs weren’t so quick to respond to emails.

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