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Interview with Mike Gammarino, Students4Startups

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The reason why, is because there's not only a lot of effort competing with larger companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, but because startups don't have dedicated people to recruit talent from local universities. It's not for everybody, of course. We don't even get a chance to see them. That's the impetus for the program.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm. ycombinator.com. .

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. were doing.

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