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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

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JJ’s List let’s users post reviews of services and businesses such as restaurants, stores, banks, movie theaters, and doctor’s offices. The users can search the database and read the reviews about how well businesses accommodate disabled people. prototype, build, and test their software. Good for them.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

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Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software as a Service (SaaS), the most mature of these segments, is comprised of end user applications like Salesforce.com. Forget everything you learned about software channels.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. View More in Seattle ›.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

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That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing social network for somewhere in the mid-seven figures. After co-hosting MicroConf in early 2011 I was on the prowl for the next big thing.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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Monitoring Relationship Status :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

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SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

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13, 2011 13:30 in Startups. But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. It’s all about the code at that point, and being lost in codespace is fun and rewarding in its own right. Database (7). Mired In Code. Categories.