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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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what your product & engineering thought they cared about and you adapt your offering. While early-stage companies have all of their engineers working on product innovation, companies that want to scale realize that you also have to build systems to help with organizational scaling.

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Here’s Why it Was an Epic Month for #LATech

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We graduate more engineers in our greater region than anywhere else in the US. We have top 25 engineering schools than anywhere else, too. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. Buying local teams with talented engineering groups. Maker Studios.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. And so you really have a log of software algorithmic stuff that is very, very difficult.”. That is a personality type. On the Startup Visa Program.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

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What to do When a Tech Giant Decides to Eat Your Lunch

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Every change in the algorithm wipes years of effort off of the traffic numbers of affected companies as anybody hurt by the Google Panda release will tell you. And we’ll build the best discovery engine to find the best content.”. It’s madness. This happens with Google, too. I chuckled. That’s not going to happen. Will he get there?

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Twitter = amazing business & marketing engine for companies. They change their search algorithm on a regular basis and as highlighted in John Battelle’s excellent (must read) book ‘ The Search ’ companies are literally put out of business with each change. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas? Or how about Google?

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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News

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I first learned the ropes around SEO (search engine optimization) and how for years this has been a cat-and-mouse game where people game the system (Google) through link exchanges, offshore SEO “agencies,&# widgets, algorithmically optimized content and the like that degrades the quality of search results.

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