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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. We then spoke about startups.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. The class consisted of basic networking and administration, network mapping, remote exploits, denial of service, web vulnerabilities, social engineering, password vulnerabilities, wireless network exploitation, persistence, digital media analysis, and cyber mission operations.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

While I had previous experience with many various aspects of online marketing such as web design, email marketing, etc., I also realized that having your own business is a great way to gain new networks. Shaw, Dallas Web Design Inc ! #15- I wanted to have a job wherein I can be flexible, but still be able to do things I like.

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Fly High

Steve Blank

The Coast Guard Academy opened in New London Connecticut in 1876. The class consisted of basic networking and administration, network mapping, remote exploits, denial of service, web vulnerabilities, social engineering, password vulnerabilities, wireless network exploitation, persistence, digital media analysis, and cyber mission operations.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. IDecideFast – A web-based application for effective decision making for the layperson. Principal Investigator: Yu Lei University of Connecticut.

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6 ways startups can improve sales lead generation (without selling their soul)

The Next Web

Gregg Schwartz is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Strategic Sales & Marketing , an industry-founding lead generation firm based in Connecticut. Connect with customers. Making sales is about building relationships, first and foremost.

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The Agony and Ecstasy of Selling My First Company

Feld Thoughts

When we installed a network for a client, we used a company called Allcom (run by two brothers – Jim Galvin and Mike Galvin.) This was before WiFi networks so the cabling jobs, especially in downtown Boston, were never trivial, especially in the older buildings. It started, like many things, completely randomly.