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8 Principles For Building A Competitive Core Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Revenue and competitive position followed. They have no understanding or patience for extra steps and delays caused by bureaucratic processes, disengaged employees, complex networks, or software usability problems. Speed is a key feature in every customer experience. Now Facebook’s market cap is nearly 500 times that number.

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Metacloud Launches Private Cloud Service

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OpenStack is the set of open source components, software, and hardware which allows companies and service providers to deploy their own, interoperably cloud services, and is considered a competitive technology to Amazon''s cloud services suite. Pricing on the new Private Cloud offering from Metacloud was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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8 Growth Practices That Every Startup Needs To Follow

Startup Professionals Musings

Revenue and competitive position followed. They have no understanding or patience for extra steps and delays caused by bureaucratic processes, disengaged employees, complex networks, or software usability problems. Speed is a key feature in every customer experience. Now Facebook’s market cap is nearly 900 times that number.

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Google Gets Into Ad Optimization, Takes On Rubicon Project

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In what might be some new competition for Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , the high profile ad optimization firm headed by Frank Addante, search engine giant Google told its advertisers late Wednesday that it will begin to offer similar capabilities in its AdSense program. Does Rubicon see Google entree into the market as competition?

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UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech

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With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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Tim is the former head of Yahoo's Global Advertising Marketplaces unit, overseeing Display, Search and Video, and was VP of Search at Overture. One, is we give them software--known as an ad server--which helps them manage different ad streams they have. The software takes care of all of the optimization of that.

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8 Positive Lessons From Facebook On Building Momentum

Startup Professionals Musings

Revenue and competitive position followed. They have no understanding or patience for extra steps and delays caused by bureaucratic processes, disengaged employees, complex networks, or software usability problems. Speed is a key feature in every customer experience. Now Facebook’s market cap is nearly 500 times that number.