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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

cindyalvarez Petabytes on a Budget - How to Beat the Big Guys (and Build Cheap Cloud Storage) Gleb Budman. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. Co-founder, Backblaze. budmang Building Community: Champions, Cheerleaders and Comrades Kimberly Dillon.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

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Here he found out that every kid in Uruguay is given a free laptop by the government – (for me it’s a bit like western countries giving all kids a free public education some 200 years ago and that’s why they currently lead the developed world). The entire country of Uruguay is connected to the web.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

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It was so amazing, like we were trying to send payments into Uruguay to pay people who are listening to their homes on Airbnb. And so we eventually just sent $100 through it and asked somebody in Uruguay to tell us how much money showed up on the other side. But email quickly moved into the cloud. It was stored in the cloud.

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