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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). That is when you potentially become complacent.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). That is when you potentially become complacent.

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Embrace Losing

Both Sides of the Table

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). But first I’d like to start with a story.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Experienced Security People (SF) iSEC Partners Application Security Consultant (SF) iSEC Partners Senior Unity Game Programmer App Minis LLC Systems/Operations Engineer (relo assistance available) Advertising.com Software Engineer in Test Advertising.com. → Learn More.

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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

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Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? For example, you were one of the first enterprise software freemium models. Customers said they’d already spent $5 million on software and another $1 million on maintenance contracts to solve their problem. Were you insane? We all had gum on our face.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Through the acquisition of Ratiopharm, which is the second-largest player in the German generics market, Europe’s biggest, Israel’s Teva becomes number one in Europe as its presence in Spain, Italy and France is also boosted. The deal is expected to capture significant synergies for Teva.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Incremental and proportional software complexity. Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. As you increase the amount of data partitioning, application code gets more complex. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said.