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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. The next sale isn’t quite as sweet.). This moment in WP Engine’s saga is one of those. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. Personal relationships do count.

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What does a Head of People do? Learning from Ada’s Chelsea MacDonald

Version One Ventures

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. She was a data analyst and has been in People and leadership roles since 2011. Unlike “traditional” departments such as Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, BD, Customer Support/Success, People is a relatively new leadership function.

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[Event] [Singapore] AppsWorld Asia: Rise Of The Planet Of The Apps

YoungUpstarts

But what is really interesting this year is the accompanying Apps World Asia 2011 , where there are specific tracks applicable to developers and programmers working in the web and mobile application spaces. Young Upstarts is a Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia and Apps World Asia 2011 media partner.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The first is HSearch, a NoSQL technology based search engine for big data that aims to break the barrier of scale of growing information and accessing it across information silos. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here. Discuss.

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The Startup Visa Act of 2011

Feld Thoughts

Today Senators Kerry (D-MA), Lugar (R-IN) and Udall (D-CO) unveiled the Startup Visa Act of 2011. The Startup Visa Act of 2011 has several significant improvements over last years bill. Lowered, More Realistic Thresholds : The minimum investment has be lowered to $100,000. This is more in line with a larger number of startup companies.

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[Review] YOUtility

YoungUpstarts

To achieve Youtility, one should consider three different facets: 1) Self-Serve Information - Customers prefer to help themselves to information prior to purchase rather than talk to a sales person. In fact, shoppers in 2011 need 10.4 pieces of information before making a purchase – a doubling of the 5.3 They are: 1.