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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies

Both Sides of the Table

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. A healthy respect for your competition will serve you well.

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Why Amazon Is the Undisputed E-Commerce Growth Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. Customer and competitive demands are rising across all sectors and experiences. Stay hungry even when you are successful.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

In addition to heading up Eucalyptus, Marten is also on the Board of fellow-cloud company, RightScale. To the casual observer, it may appear that Eucalyptus and RightScale’s respective solutions are competitive. Like most rapidly growing tech sectors, cloud computing has experienced its share of hype and hyperbole.

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3 Important Facebook Marketing Trends in 2016

Tech Zulu Event

Costs for advertising on Facebook are increasing, due to high demand, and their profits continue to soar. The way to get ahead of the competition is to look at what they’re doing right and do it better. How can your company best benefit from social networking ads in 2016? Top 3 Important Facebook Marketing Trends to Watch and Emulate.

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UnVenture Capitalists: Seek Investors Aligned With Your Interests, Not Their Egos

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Because of the advancements in cloud computing by companies like RightScale and open source software such as MySQL , the costs to create a scalable web service have decreased by a factor of ten since the year 2000. UnVCs do not demand that entrepreneurs pursue such winner-take-all strategies. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

However, TenHands’ “special sauce” is in its groundbreaking architecture as the 1st to deliver personal (desktop, mobile) video as a virtualized cloud computing solution and the 1st to commercialize WebRTC - the catalyst behind the effort to revolutionize the way we use our browsers to communicate.