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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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Marten began his story by explaining that MySQL was originally founded as a research project and how it was a nascent startup for nearly a decade before he joined the team. I started helping them with strategy in 2000 and then. We went back to all the VCs and said, 'We have good news and bad news. I was ready to give up.

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

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In addition to being a thought leader within the Lean Startup Movement , Steve is also a professor at Stanford and Berkley. Good News Bad News. The team failed to understand that marketing's primary role at a startup is to drive sales. Number two (was) to create end-user demand and drive it into our sales channel.

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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. Strong Start – Grab your audience’s attention and tell them who you are and why they must listen. Comedians often ask questions to set up their punch lines. In comedy, empty phrases such as, “Anyone here from New York?”

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

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You’re a startup. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service. Ultimately, the more you move your application “up the stack”, the fewer resources you are required to manage. Apps & Software Dev & Design Django IaaS PaaS PastCGI Rails Saas Software Startups WSGI'

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. 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. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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Financial News. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.