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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. It was 2003. All manual operations.

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Monitoring Relationship Status :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

How about monitoring the relationship between internal teams like sales and marketing? How happy is your staff? It may be one of the most important reflections of the service your customers receive. Event follow-up – A quick way to monitor how your webinar, conference or presentation went. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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When You Should Still Use a Relational Database Instead of NoSQL

www.readwriteweb.com

In a blog post at DBMS2 , database veteran Curt Monash explains when its still best to use a relational database. Monash gives the following use-cases as examples of when a relational database is best: Youre building a low-volume, medium-complexity suite of applications that will evolve over time.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years. There are literally over a billion rows in the database and no one had touched it since 2008.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

That is because we do not sell, or use, anything other than “canned” software, for which we collect and remit appropriate sales taxes. He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story

BeyondVC

We also leveraged the open source database platform PostgreSQL as the initial foundation for our technology. Enter Didera (backed by Hudson Ventures) which had a database clustering solution which would allow us to take our data analytics solutions on to commodity clusters. We bought that company in 2003 and invested some more capital.

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