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Tech Companies Share Shutdown Losses, With Little Chance of Back Pay

Xconomy

As federal agency employees miss their first paychecks today due to the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22, federal contractors and their workers—including technology professionals—face a loss of income that they may never recover.

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How ContractSafe Wants To Help You Get Your Legal Docs In Order, With Ken Button

socalTECH

For a lot of companies�and their management and legal teams-- managing the reams of paperwork involved with legal contracts is a big, disorganized mess. They're not well organized, they're hard to find, and companies are at risk of missing key dates. Why is this needed by companies? So how'd you end up starting the company?

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

socalTECH

It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. What is Neogov?

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For Many New Ventures, Location Is The Key To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. The list goes on and on.

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

Both Sides of the Table

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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Cloudera, Hortonworks Plan To Merge As $5.2B Cloud Data Platform

Xconomy

Cloudera and Hortonworks, two large, publicly traded companies that compete to offer Web-based data storage and analytics, announced plans today to merge into a combined entity they value at $5.2 The goal of the combined entity is to provide a leading data platform. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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When Planning A Startup, A Top Priority Is Location

Startup Professionals Musings

Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. The list goes on and on.

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