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Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

Feld Thoughts

I’m intensely proud of both the amazing startup community in Boulder as well as the many significant companies that have been – and are being – created in the little town of 100,000 people I call home. In late 2006, Zayo was a pure start-up headquartered behind Nick and Willy’s on 8th and Pearl.

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The Making of Lytro

K9 Ventures

In walks Ren Ng , introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” I didn’t know Ren personally, but I certainly knew him by reputation — as one of the smartest people around. ” Ren, now Dr. Ren Ng, was a fellow PhD student with me at Stanford.

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

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Israeli startups in the mobile space are once again showing impressive attendance levels, with 56 Israeli companies exhibiting in the Israeli Pavilion. companies worldwide.Operating since 2007, Tvinci has an established reputation among leaders in the field of providing technology for content distribution Over-the-Top. Saguna Networks.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

When IMVU instigated a policy of banning users from voicing their thoughts, however, even more damage was done to the company's reputation in the eyes of many. I'm one of the older users not in age but time on IMVU, May 2006 join date. People felt themselves to be subject to censorship, a perception that continues to this day.

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