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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

Tech.Co

Companies such as Microsoft, Facebook and Google have all established employee referral programs that give employees monetary rewards for referring friends who get hired. If you hired an outstanding front-end software engineer, chances are they are friends with other outstanding software developers.

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Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies

Tech Zulu Event

In this talk I will review how developers can easily change their applications to be more functional in a mobile, touch first world and provide an engaging user experience. He’ll also shed some light on how your server side code (and mindset) needs to change to better support clients written in dynamic/prototypical languages.

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. . – Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Folksonomy.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful. The initial data we are seeing at Ad.ly

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

As I earlier suggested, part of the problem is due to the organization of Washington, DC, right down to fiscal years and annual budgets. It was referred to the Labor/Education Committee and was there left for dead. Press conferences are given and military recruiting is done in virtual, online worlds. Army, for example.