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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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Google had no clue that they were going to make so much money in sponsored search. They suddenly had Javascript on pages that covered 40 million unique users and they were coming up with innovative ad products that combated banner blindness. They really just copied and out executed Overture (originally goto.com).

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive. Much bigger.

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

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The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Prism will be an extension of what you can do with the Google Glass. Technologies used: google maps, jquery, java, and tomcat. Technologies used: HTML5, python, django, jQuery Mobile, javascript, mysqldb. Technologies used: Google App engine and Android SDK.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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But I’m sure he’ll never remember your company when Google buys you for $500 million and he’s still eating Ramen – right? I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? But make it competitive. Here’s a hack for you.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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Type “personal financial management&# into Google. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Yet type it into Google and the third result (behind the Wikipedia entry and ecommerce.com ) is Magento. Yet type it into Google and the third result (behind the Wikipedia entry and ecommerce.com ) is Magento.

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