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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. We went back to all the VCs and said, 'We have good news and bad news. The bad news, we've been sued in the US. The bad news, we've been sued in the US. We were shocked.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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Good News Bad News. Number two (was) to create end-user demand and drive it into our sales channel. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider. Share and Enjoy.

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Serious Presentation Tips From Standup Comics

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In addition, both comedians and entrepreneurs must engage and entertain their demanding audiences. In comedy, empty phrases such as, “Anyone here from New York?” or “Did you guys hear the news story about. ?” As such, there is much entrepreneurs can learn from their comic brethren. Share and Enjoy.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service. So integrating an application with SaaS providers allows a developer to consume SaaS services as components and building blocks without having to reinvent the wheel (eg, using Google Maps for location services, using RSS aggregators for content/news services, etc).

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently? Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra).