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People Management: Startup Teams Should Dip but not Skip

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I had long ago ceded the knowledge and responsibility for making the detailed technical recommendations about platforms, databases, hosting solutions, etc. So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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We write and create our own content for the game. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. All of TriNet’s services are supported by a team of dedicated human capital consultants and experts, and enabled by best-in-class HR technology from Oracle-PeopleSoft.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. Immediately after the acquisition we held meetings with all of the integrated CMS vendors and highlighted to them which bits we were going to make our core platform and which bits we weren’t planning to offer ourselves.

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Everything about Java 8

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At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. Preview builds of Java 8, specifically the "Project Lambda" builds, can be downloaded from java.net: Java™ Platform, Standard Edition 8 Early Access with Lambda Support. It performs better than RRWL when used as a plain read-write lock.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. Cloud Data Platform. Okta solves this and more. Business Logic.

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