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Toronto Based Start Up Readitfor.me | Reads Books for You

Tech Zulu Event

McDonald’s IPOed 46 years ago with a market cap today of over $100 billion, why? Google’s current market cap sits at just over $200 billion (Yahoo! When I was running my digital marketing firm I was constantly in corporate meetings. In most offices there would be a shelf of business books. For we live in speed.

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Proven | Founder Interview with Pablo Fuentes. Job Markets, & The Future of Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. One of them is the idea that the fluidity of the job market where people used to have just one job. TechZulu: Let’s start off with an obvious question.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

Both Sides of the Table

As a market we seem to be incapable of temperance. And even the best teams combined to create big innovations sometimes don’t time markets well, are surprised by unexpected technology breakthroughs by competitors or just don’t find the magic the leads to mass customer adoption. I started by writing 3-4 times / week.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

You likely are writing your first one of these. You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. Minimum Viable Product: a guide , Lessons Learned, Eric Ries, August 3, 2009 10 examples of minimum viable products Minimum Viable Product revisited – the MVP Curve?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Crazy, huh?

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. DataPop : DataPop was founded by performance marketing veterans from Yahoo!, And of course we had, TheMan. Now begins the 6-month journey.

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