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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. Appirio is one such company that jumped on this trend way back in 2007 and has now built a significant company in that space. Sequoia has financed them.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. It was originally started as a college dorm project, where many of the best products on the web seem to hatch. Acquia, Inc. Because they are open source.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but. Posted by: Darren Stuart | September 10, 2007 4:53 AM What an excellent article! Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 6:28 AM Excellent post! Cant wait for more ;).

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. a deal in which you gain valuable, incremental bandwidth while mitigating your cash outflows. Copyright © 2007 - 2011 infoChachkie.

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POTS -- Plain Old Text (sites, services)

aweissman.com

May 21, 2007. Atif Rafiq , in an essay called "In Defense of the Text Web, writes that: "[I]t’s simplistic to believe that anything produced in text today can be better consumed in video. Tags: text , web services. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Contextualizing it.

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Transcript of Spotting Inflection Points in Your Industry

Duct Tape Marketing

They feel instant when you are experiencing their effects, but if you think about just the digital revolution as a case in point, we’ve had this thing building up since the early 90s, when we had the first friendly web browser, and the seeds of it go back even further back than that.

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Master mobile navigation

www.netmagazine.com

We reveal the top 50 books for web designers and developers. This article first appeared in issue 232 of.net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. All of this is to say that navigating the web on a mobile device was not a enjoyable activity. A Future Site â?¼. Advertisement.

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