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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

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Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse. years of software development.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

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And make sure to pick up a copy of his book. 22:53 Eric’s book: The Lean Startup. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! There are many in this episode. 21:20 Starting points for business should be a problem.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors

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We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. A Stanford alum, Aaron wrote the book on sales 2.0. While Senior Director of Corporate Development & Acquisitions at Salesforce.com, he grew the B2B sales division to $100M.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand. There are many analogies here for software development. But he was street smart and hustled. It made me confident about what would work.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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However, I was reading this book by Phil Knight, called Shoe Dog, and he talks about his story and how life is basically a sport, and that very few people are on the field of life. On the demand side of our business, we have open ended insertion orders, and we're up to our ears in people who want to buy our unit.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Richard Rosenblatt. ycombinator.com. . Lisa Stone.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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Off to the Races StrongMail is a digital messaging infrastructure software company. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. It turned out that this drove even more demand for StrongMail.

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