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Google Cloud opens its Las Vegas region

TechCrunch LA

Like all of Google’s new regions, Las Vegas will offer three availability zones and access to most of Google Cloud’s services. In Vegas, though, developers won’t be able to use relatively new services like Cloud Functions and Cloud Run yet.

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8 Key Rules for Starting a Business on a Shoestring

Startup Professionals Musings

In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer. Skip the costs of payroll, office equipment and employee benefits by using remote contract services and low-cost freelancers available online.

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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. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP.