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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.

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Are we creating a vibrant future for California?

AeA Los Angeles Council

While the growth of Web 2.0 Agarwal (Director of Technology Services) > Adrian Farley (Deputy Director of Procurement, DGS) ABOUT TERI TAKAI: Ms. Prior to going into state service, Ms. Takai was named "Public Official of the Year" by Governing magazine in 2005. billion dollars over 11 years. www.koodooz.com

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. This will create whole new segments of the tech market for databases, data-as-a-service, real-time information processing, cloud mapping & visualization technology, etc. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. When I first got into the industry it was 2007.

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