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

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. The analogy is like a credit score.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Interview with Kinetic Traction Systems

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It's a fairly straightforward system design, and is essentially what Urenco developed. When their parent firm pulled up support for that company in 2004, they went out of business, but the technology and the IP lived on. In the New York Power Authority contract, the use was halfway between two substations.

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