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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

According to Marten, "Suddenly, when we were building our business and we thought that this very vital component of our product would be part of us, suddenly it was owned by one of our competitors. Marten noted that a year after Oracle acquired InnoDB, MySQL made an unexpected announcement at their annual Users Conference.

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Avoid Death By PowerPoint – Create Slides That Don’t Suck

InfoChachkie

We were talking about an upcoming conference when he declared, "I hate PowerPoint. Slides Are Not Art - Compelling images are important, but ensure that your message is not overcome by design and production elements. Instead, the presenters told their story in a conversation manner, rather than via the typical monologue approach.

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Has Facebook Achieved What AOL Could Have A Generation Ago?

Tech Zulu Event

If you don’t know, Instant Articles are Facebook’s new way to natively load articles within the app using an adapted RSS feed. Mark Zuckerberg announced native Instant Articles as a feature update about a year ago and Facebook has been slowly rolling out and improving the product ever since. By that I mean: Let me explain.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers - Steve Blank , September 2, 2010 I gave a talk last night to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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The Power Of Mouth To Mouth Marketing

InfoChachkie

One way to do so is to ensure that when your customers share their experiences with your products and solutions, they do so with the passion and intensity of a soulful kiss. Our goal was to have the conference participants wake up in their suites to a flyer stealthily placed under their doors in the middle of the night.

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Trade Show Guerilla Marketing – Booth Babes With Beards

InfoChachkie

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Thus, I was inspired when I heard about the impact collaboration-in-the-cloud innovator Central Desktop made at the April 2012 San Francisco ad:tech conference.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. Conferences. "Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says on its website. Forget the Valley—pack your bags for Google L.A.". It will open later this year. WSJ Web Slice. Wall Street Journal. FourSquare. Customer Center.