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2009 Veterans Economic and Business Development Summit

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Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- 2009 Veterans Economic and Business Development Summit. This event is designed to encourage and support Veterans and Service Disable Veteran Owned Small Businesses interested in obtain federal contract, learn more about contracting opportunities, the procurement process and resources available.

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CardiAQ Sues Neovasc

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Irvine-based medical device manufacturer CardiAQ Valve Technologies , which develops mitral valves used for heart surgery, has sued Neovasc , claiming fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, and unfair and deceptive trade practices. READ MORE>>. legal lawsuit surgery valve heart neovasc cardiaq'

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Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup

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I am not a government contracting expert. In the parlance of government contracting, this approach is termed a “prime and sub-prime relationship.” The Downside Of Government Contracting. When the US government announced the 2009 Cash For Clunkers stimulus plan, it promised dealers they would receive payment “within 10-days.”

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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. Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. How do you offload all those headaches?

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. If you look at services like Twitter, there are a lot of users who don't post, but read a lot. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll? So you're making multiple applications?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. True that Salesforce.com in particular has made interesting moves toward open-cloud services by purchasing Heroku and also launching Database.com.

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

Tech.Co

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development.