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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply. There are too many deals.

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

blogs.computerworlduk.com

In case your computer industry history is lacking, WS-I is the industry consortium that got together a decade ago to create specifications for Web Services protocols (note the capitals, so as not to confuse with actual internet services that use HTTP and REST for loosely-coupled data access).

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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I Have Never Been So Happy to Give PayPal $30/month

Software By Rob

For I have stared into the countenance of evil and lived to speak the tale… A Long Time Ago (In Internet Years). I would have taken a crack at it myself, but the site is written in ColdFusion, and I haven’t touched CF since 2000. So I updated the company name while we were on the phone. But no more! Application #3.

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12 Questions: Meet Maximilian (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

So I spent 7 years of my education in Europe with other loonies who enjoy drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, heck, even music (which I have NO talent for, but I can play the iPod like Horowitz!). Do you prefer visual creativity or coming up with a great new name or. I feel naked without the internet. Riiiiight.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program. Its only flaw is its name. See you in Europe! For iGAP participants only. To sign up Please register here.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,