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Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup

InfoChachkie

Now, more than ever, government agencies in the US and abroad are lousy startup customers. I am not a government contracting expert. Some startups opt to partner with larger companies which have pre-established relationships with government customers. The Downside Of Government Contracting.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

socalTECH

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? We were really focused on customer acquisition.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. We now send over six billion emails per month on behalf of those customers.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? A BIG THANK YOU. Startup 3.0:

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

Tech Zulu Event

After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. This application is nothing different than a to-do list, similar to hundreds we’ve seen from other developers.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

SoCal Delicious

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly And this is one thing that should NOT be the focus of the CTO / Founder during the company's development phase.

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Interview with Kinetic Traction Systems

socalTECH

It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed. We completed that agreement in 2009, and were taking the original Urenco design, and began to manufacturer that design. In the New York Power Authority contract, the use was halfway between two substations.

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