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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. Rather than punish them, it may pay you to nurture and manage their outside-the-box thinking, and capitalize on their innovations that help your customers and keep you ahead of the competition.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. It is always great to quickly raise money with your idea, but far more often than not, it’s a long haul (of) relationship building with investors.

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

Tech Zulu Event

The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Technologies used: google maps, jquery, java, and tomcat. Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. Technologies used: Google Maps API, to help us give passengers an idea of their ETA according to distance/traffic. That is some serious cash! comes to rescue.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

socalTECH

What's your opinion on how well that works, and how much competition are they? We support 700 different handsets across our platform, whereas some folks are just building a Java application which is supported by an expensive, N95, $700 smart phone--which no one has. It all depends on the carrier and their target market.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

TechEmpower

Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. But we have an idea for dealing with Gozer. Recent months have been a very exciting time for this project. More on that later.

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