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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. How did Akamai do it? . .

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The Longhorn Startup

Austin Startup

Some large companies can bolster their position by buying out established technology and business models rather than creating them anew. Staying private  — The average age of a technology company before it goes public is 11 years, as opposed to an average life of four years back in 1999. Imagine that. was not as attractive.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? . -