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Rare event in Palo Alto today: fireside chat with Lifograph and Microsoft

The Startup Magazine

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. The Wiki of People is a free people search engine with 500K profiles and 1.2M AGENDA: 5:45pm – 6:30pm – Networking reception. 6:30pm – 7:45pm – Speaker program. Dubbed “Ms.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

He published our first wiki where the whole list of potential features were outlined. They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. He made customer-to-customer dialog possible and visible.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. . Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

Many great engineers Ive worked with (especially the type I talked about in the hackers lament ) seem to think that if they get along well with someone in an interview, theyll be a good addition to the team. I experienced this when I was the engineering manager at a small company. Tell us what youve learned in those different contexts.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric, I wrote up the outline for a government program to promote entrepreneurship I call the "Civilian Innovation Corps" This would be a program supported jointly by government and private investors and would immediately jumpstart the innovation engine in this country. You can see the design of the program here. There are and we do.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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With YC I ended up as a co-founder of a startup, met amazing people, lived in California, made mistakes, learned from them, and saw what it really takes to succeed.” Aaron Swartz made it into the Summer Founders Program with his flexible blogging/wiki software Infogami, which he had already been working on for some time.

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Startup Tools

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Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.