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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S. Up until January 31, I was running the nonprofit that I founded called Code for America, for ten years. She served as the U.S. 33:59) The value of being useful. (35:20)

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

They face lots of competition and few barriers to entry so the future growth and profitability can legitimately be questioned, but still… what Andrew Mason and the rest of the team have built in such a short time is truly remarkable.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. They are in school, right now, all across this country.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins! He created the first GPU table joiner and the rest is history. Significant capital has been raised in Peru and throughout Latin America. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity. I am a proud investor and advisor.

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Transcript of Using AI with Human Touch to Create Great Social Content

Duct Tape Marketing

They had AT&T involved, and Bank of America, and the IRS, and 10s of thousands of small and mediums businesses. John Jantsch: Let’s say I’m a person that likes to read lots of blogs, and news sources, so I’ve actually aggregated them into some sort of reader. John Jantsch: Yeah. Chernis: Yes.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter: Retailers used to have tons of information on their own users, but not about the rest of the world. Caroline: Small businesses first of all should have a website, even though there’s a statistic out there like 60% of small businesses in America don’t even have a website, which is sort of crazy. Caroline: Right.

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Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner's Advanced Google Analytics Guide

Occam's Razor

You'll see in an instant the very cool things you can track and analyze… With a little bit of smart tagging you can track your internal promotions ( buy one Make America Great Again hat and get one Stronger Together hat free! ), transactions with coupon codes, affiliate sales and more. Very nicely summarized above. Take a break.