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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Interesting to note that Hafner and English own common stock but also made meaningful investments in the Series A & B rounds. Founding Date: 2004. as of 12/31/09). Author howerl.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft.

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COVID-19 – Accelerating The Destruction Of Corporate Arrogance

YoungUpstarts

As a company grows, corporate leaders must become fixated on the stock price, internal politics and compliance. But I saw that there was a clear and emerging trend: technology was helping small businesses compete with large corporations. The president was totally dismissive of our technology and manufacturing solution.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. This is the blog post I needed to read. niners.boi Do you think we can ever take [link] mainstream? link] Hazem Awad An excellent and very practical article.

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. That knowledge gap hampers efforts to staff and stock the stadium appropriately. Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics.

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