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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In retrospect, however, Bill Gates did a lot of things right as a startup that I still look for today in aspiring entrepreneurs and their companies: Build a strong team. Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms.

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Mature Companies Can Learn Many Things From Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In retrospect, however, Bill Gates did a lot of things right as a startup that I still look for today in aspiring entrepreneurs and their companies: Build a strong team. Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms.

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Why Millennials Are Moving to Downtown Cleveland

Tech.Co

Currently, I am the cofounder and CIO of Remesh , which is an AI platform that understands and engages groups of people in conversation in real time. I am also an experienced entrepreneur who has founded two other companies. Entrepreneurs in Cleveland have a great deal of ingenuity. What’s your role in your ecosystem?

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

socalTECH

I was a principal engineer facilitating the integration and connectivity of the ServiceNow platform into these other systems. David Loo: Ultimately, at the C-level, the CIO requires data metrics and intelligence, in order to compete and make decisions and take actions to further a company's agenda. That's how we started.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

Tech Zulu Event

ZunguZ is a global social payment platform that integrates deeply into the social graph of Facebook and financial service providers. We may keep the platform with the name ZunguZ and look for a client facing name for the application. Ernst & Young – World Entrepreneur Awards – FINALIST (Annex 13). What is Zunguz?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. Come join us.

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Biz2Beach To Stream Live Here On TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

GroupPrice was recently named in Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Brilliant Companies for 2011. Robyn will speak about fostering a positive and productive work environment for employees, including the BetterWorks next-generation platform that makes it easy and affordable for SMBs to recognize, reward and motivate talent.

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