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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. walking around seeing coders buried deep into code, focused on completing their product before the clock expired. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Product Design. Teams: CoderTie.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. Did you know that their original product wasn’t a video camera? They were product and cost focused. And then the BIG pivot.

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

Tech Zulu Event

It’s built on Ruby with HTML5/javascript using Isotope. For competitive reasons, we don’t want to disclose this just yet. It was a big challenge to make our technology/product very simple and easy to use. is about pulling curated content to you from trusted sources. How cool is that? We love Web 3.0. 1 1/2 years.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? But make it competitive. Your memory – they never worked very hard and didn’t want to commit.

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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

Tech Zulu Event

The names “Embark” and “Journey” relate to how our products are used by companies who have distributed workforces that go out to all sorts of places “in the field” where they provide services. Learning simple JavaScript in order to build apps on Journey is however quite feasible. Any competition?

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

Component production – someone needs to manufacture all of those components. Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. The hardware production industry is capital and labor intensive, complicated, and faces significant human rights, regulatory, and seasonality risks.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Do you have sales productivity software? A blog post is just like a product. Mint.com is the second result.

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