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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. The best way to describe this is by example.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. OpenEvents and OpenReviews, were early attempts at standardizing schemas and shared servers for these forms of micro-content. Only guarantee for longevity is if you have options. I would tend to agree.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + The problem with AOL is that they bundled content with access and that content wasn’t really the web. It was AOL.

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