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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

A couple of weeks ago, I met the infamous @jeffpulver, co-founder of Vonage, author of the Pulver Order , and creator of the #140 Conference (the premier conference on Twitter and the real-time Internet.) About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA. We are expecting a full house!