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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. they have purchasing intent ).*. question at least once a month. Where Do You Fit?

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. That was the year Twitter took off.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

Kooply , a game development engine in stealth, was of the 20 winners of the 2024 Game Changers list by Lightspeed Ventures. It can now be used to track players in official games. GAMING – Israeli game Lost in Play (by Snapbreak games) won the iPad game of the year in 2023 ( source ). Fast forward to mid 2020, at the peak of Covid.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

The choices we make today will reverberate for a long time and if we sow the seeds, we will reap a harvest of plenty and broadly shared prosperity in the new normal to come. We don't know what kind of recovery we'll have, we don't know what that new normal will look like, we don't know what values will be embedded.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. After 17 years, we are the fourth largest (and fastest growing) supply chain planning and optimization company in the world. 4) Used to Reconnect. 23) 3 Reasons.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Google App Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs.