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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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[US] The 10 Best Sectors That Are Boosting The Economy

YoungUpstarts

President Obama plans to support this recovery and growth with the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership initiative, working to ensure that innovative products are created in the United States. million in tax revenue since 2000, with California following shortly behind at 17,000 jobs and $185.5 India-based firms. economy and job growth.

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The Next 10 Years Of Infocomm Technology

YoungUpstarts

Over the next few decades, this young cohort would comprise a rising proportion of citizens in Asia (31%-40% in Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan, and more than 51% in Malaysia, Philippines, India and Indonesia). 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc.

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Why Netflix Is Winning The Big Data Game

YoungUpstarts

The company plans to expand into Japan, China, Portugal, and Spain by the end of the year – marking only the beginning of their international expansion strategy. Customer behavior data informs businesses if a product is working and what can be changed. Netflix categorizes their products with metadata. With over 65.5

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Plantible Foods

Austin Startup

In the end, Ajax lost and my pain was more or less covered by the fact that I didn’t spend $2000 on a ticket to fly back home. When travelling through Japan with my mother and my brother, we ran into the rapper The Game on a train station in Hiroshima. What do you eat/drink/do when you are low on energy?

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. DST invested $180mm last fall. 406 Ventures.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.