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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

TechCrunch LA

A security lapse at online grocery delivery startup Mercato exposed tens of thousands of customer orders, TechCrunch has learned. A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. It turns out it's not just a quick line of code to send an email -- it's also a hassle to make sure that those emails get delivered, that your email isn't classified as spam, and handling all sorts of delivery issues.

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6 Information Surges Raise Huge Startup Opportunities

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers. The audience is now the actors.

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Are you killing innovation in your company?

Berkonomics

As your business grows more complex and there are more employees to manage and more customers to care for, slowly you will notice that more and more time of your chief innovation officer or system architect or R&D department is spent focused upon enhancements in response to needs of the user base. First, let’s recognize the problem.

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App development shop V/One is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds to budding LA mobile businesses

TechCrunch LA

For small businesses, the plan is to charge $297 per month for app development and customization along with any future builds, hosting, and product support and maintenance. Essentially speaking, if you can design it it can be made a functional app in our builder,” Redman wrote in an email.

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6 Technology Trends Will Spawn Countless New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. This gives rise to the personalization and customization that we all want. Crowdsource: putting your audience to work beyond customers. The audience is now the actors.

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What I Learned in 2014: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

socalTECH

Build a great team that is focused on providing a unique product or service that offers something of great value that your customers simply cannot live without. Then treat these customers well and great things will happen.maybe So how do you address these odds and win? maybe even 10x.

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