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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

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Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. Application Development Activity.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

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Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. It promises to revolutionize the way developers and operation teams work, aiming to make application development for the cloud less of a nightmare. See also: What Is Docker And Why Does It Matter?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. 427 referred to the engine capacity. My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. This slight misspelling of the word “code” seemed like the perfect combination of abstraction and substance.

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Revolution at the Edge

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This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. These aging products, developed in earlier times now represent bankrupt ideologies, weak paradigms and byzantine complexity.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

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Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. The next one is TechProm , organized by Dave Balter, the founder of BzzAgent. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. University Resources.

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