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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

He explained how users at the time were encountering “social engineering threats” rather than “technical threats” and that his company took an “East Coast” approach to the problem as they built an automated system that rated websites. Such that during that time, Chris “learned how to learn.”.

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. The US labor force gained over 10 million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2012—with over 21% of working Americans receiving at least part of their income through self-employment.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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Girls Who Code: Crashing the “Brogram”

ReadWriteStart

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. And where a company called Sqoot holds an API hackathon with a list of “great perks” that includes massages, a live DJ and “Women: Need another beer?

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Scaling Sales: From Craft to Machine

Seeing Both Sides

You assign an annual quota to each rep, train them, feed them some sales tools and assign them a sales engineer (particularly for more technically complex products) and coach them along the way. Find a new sales rep with industry experience, a rolodex and a strong track record.

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Girls Who Code: Crashing the “Brogram”

ReadWriteStart

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. And where a company called Sqoot holds an API hackathon with a list of “great perks” that includes massages, a live DJ and “Women: Need another beer? Or that less than 10% of venture-backed companies have women founders.

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A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi

Diego Basch

On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. Inktomi was the #1 search engine in the world for a while. Despite our relevance being so great, there was one huge red flag: engineers at Inktomi were starting to use Google as our search engine. Life was good. What happened?

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