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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. MyUSA Simplifying the process of finding and accessing information and government services that are right for you. Take a look and judge for yourself.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Sure, when WP Engine launches a new product, the marketing department needs predictability for the launch date, but that’s because it’s a highly-skilled, well-funded group, which explodes with press, events, campaigns, social media, and newsletters, grabbing more attention in a single week than a smaller company might garner in a year.

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

blogs.computerworlduk.com

Although I know many brilliant software engineers who worked unexpected miracles with Web Services, implementation by the common corporate programmer was stodgy in every case I heard about. It took many, many years for that doom to be made reality. Fine work, and many lessons learned , but sadly irrelevant to most of us.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

It will also lead to a massive expansion of government, whose only function will be to try to interpret and unravel an impossibly complex set of new tax rules. I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Service-oriented architecture. Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. And then small businesses start to use it.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. The modular architecture and scalability of the solutions enables.

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