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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Let’s circle back to Latinitas’ first interaction with IBM, back to our start in 2002. We thank IBM Customer Architect and Master Inventor Janani Janakiraman, Software Engineer Karen Siles (now a Latinitas board member!) We have served thousands, explored topics that cover digital media to robotics to coding to maker culture.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. Artem Fishman is the Vice President of Engineering at Huge , a full-service digital agency that has recently helped build NYC.gov , Revolt.TV Design & Dev Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion Investigations'

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. The key to WePay’s ability to support platforms is our patent-pending risk engine technology, Veda, that lets us underwrite merchants of any size and shape. Enterprises with less than 25 people gained over a 1.5

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2013 – “Media and content is a hit driven business – we simply don’t invest in it”. (?????).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2013 – “Media and content is a hit driven business – we simply don’t invest in it”. (?????).

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. You value creativity in your engineering staff, but it translates into profits only when pointed in the right direction. One of my engineers once told me my favorite color was plaid. Paisley is OK.)

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Ninja Moves from a Secret Marketing Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

Implement a consistent demand generation engine. The “advertising is dying” drumbeat started in November 2002 when Gallup released this study that proved traditional advertising expenditures were not generating results. Have a great product/service (which takes time to develop).