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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Flickr has an API. S3 has an API. We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. If you're interested in building ultra-scalable applications in the cloud, big data, APIs, and crawling, please drop Rob a line at info@backupify.com. and even a little while after that.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

More than that, sites are full of pages with unclear calls to action, massive pukes of fields in the checkout process, slooooooooow loading as it waits for the Facebook + Buzz + God knows what API calls to come through. " I'd postulated this rule in 2005, it is even more true in 2011. Would you treat your mother like that?

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. I have found that our venture’s costs up to the date of launch were probably split between development (70%), legal (20%) and hosting/admin (10%). So, your article is very consistent with our experience.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. [link] Sergey S, CUA How important is to have a working prototype? Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

Are you hosting an event in the community? Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc. Have a blog and update it at least once a week. Put out a press release once a month. Hiring someone new? Speaking at a conference? All of that is newsworthy.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

And I remember we were trying to work with this local payment provider there so that people could pick up cash and things and reading their API documentation. And it became clear that we had no idea how much money was going to show up on the other side of this API. We called them and they couldn't even answer the question themselves.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. NET is a Framework (APIs/ABIs and Runtime), not a language. In fact the MS-DOS API allowed the use of forward slashes, it probably still does. Steven Livingstone.

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