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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. What our company is doing, is it is developing an online tool for people to find addiction treatment to meet their needs. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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Scaling a Business by Cloning Yourself is Tough

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. In addition, the statistics show that over half of new startups, perhaps as high as 75%, provide services only (no product). Thus it’s up to you to communicate effectively what you are about, to customers as well as your own team.

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

InfoChachkie

Semantic technology is important… we can aggregate individual lists into the wisdom of crowd aggregations which are more statistically meaningful than one person’s opinion about a topic.”. I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. I am looking for Java developers and database experts.

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Products vs Services – Critical Success Factors

Startup Professionals Musings

Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. In addition, the statistics show that over half of new startups, perhaps as high as 75%, provide services only (no product). Thus it’s up to you to communicate effectively what you are about, to customers as well as your own team.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. I installed Windows 3.1

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

Tech Zulu Event

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.),

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

SoCal Delicious

Developments Blog. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 The arrival of techies has also had a profound effect on the rental market, brokers and real-estate developers say. Loading… Real Estate. » More. Real Estate.