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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

socalTECH

other companies, which are already off and running are ready for aceclerators and seed funding. We occupy the space in ecosystem to service companies who are getting ready for seed or have just started to go out for seed funding. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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We’ve been using MongoDB as the backing store for Treasury , and over the course of two and a half months , we’ve had over 50,000 excellent Treasuries created by the Etsy community, all stored and served in MongoDB. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch.

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