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Want to work at a startup? Nail these 9 interview questions

The Next Web

How many people live in New York City? With a city population estimate, it’s okay to be off by a couple of million. But if you think there’s 100,000 or 100,000,000 New York City residents, that’s quite concerning. What’s the latest news you’ve heard from the tech industry? Explain it to me.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. io domains belong to the Internet artisans… at least that’s the vibe it has. We’ve managed to turn this little island in the Indian Ocean into a brand for the people who are making the Internet.”.

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Girlfluence To Harness Women Power Online Using Video

YoungUpstarts

Founded within Manhattan’s Silicon Alley – which is seeing an explosion of entrepreneurship in the digital space - New York City-based Girlfluence aims to gather the support of and speak to the new generation of female entrepreneurs, influencers and consumers and thereby harnessing and nurturing female empowerment.

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What Skills Every New Internet Entrepreneur Needs

ReadWriteStart

I had lunch with one of my favorite Internet entrepreneurs today, Mark Sawyier , the CEO of Off Campus Media. Sawyier came to this business without any formal training in computer science, business, management, or other technology training, yet he is a natural when it comes to running a modern-day Internet business.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.)

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Dalhousie University Commencement Speech – 2017

Steve Blank

I was present at the creation of the first microprocessors, participated in the PC revolution, built video games, and shipped software on the first Internet browsers. Our better angels soared as printed books became the Internet of the Renaissance. Readers of books now had new brains. Readers of newspapers had new brains.

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3 Reasons Why The Big Apple Is Perfect For Revolutionary New Media Startup VIDGO

YoungUpstarts

Millions of travelers come to New York City each and every year and a great number of them are here to see a Broadway show or just to get a place in the audience of television shows like the ever-popular ABC daytime news/weather/entertainment show, Good Morning America.

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