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10 Ways Owners Often Jeopardize Their Business Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

The most cost-effective marketing approaches have changed; from catalogs to web sites, and from television commercials to social media. Excessive support and return activities. Outsourcing services that could be done in-house. Outsourcing is an expensive solution for poor planning.

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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. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. However, every web application needs and email component. What is Sendgrid?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

. ► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

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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How Element 16 Hopes To Help Cut Power Use In Industrial Plants, Parker Wells

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com), based in Glendale, which has developed new heat energy storage technology aimed at use in the industrial sector. We originally developed this heat storage technology for use in concentrated solar, for collecting heat from the sun. That project is still in the middle of development, capturing 1.5MW of intermittent waste heat.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). Quigo set up a system on specific web pages.

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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. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. At least in the consumer & business web.