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The Oracle enigma

deal architect

It has been quite a month for cloud computing. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson announced their “thirteenth consecutive quarter of more than 30 percent year-over-year revenue growth.” Amazon Web Services announced 78% revenue growth increase year over year. Microsoft reported 18.

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5 Elements of Leadership You Can’t Succeed Without

Startup Professionals Musings

Many entrepreneurs forget that their success is more about helping other people than about personally becoming famous, or overcoming the odds and getting rich. A successful business has to satisfy customers with a strong team, by helping them solve problems, save money, or experience more pleasure. That means more focus on helping others achieve their goals.

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Startup stories: Mitch Wainer of DigitalOcean explains how he got accepted to Techstars

The Next Web

Digital Ocean is a private server company that leases capacity from existing data centres all over the world. Founded in 2011, it has become the second largest hosting provider in the world behind Amazon, and even surpassed Jeff Bezos’ company in terms of annual growth. In this video, Julian Shapiro sat down with co-founder Mitch Wainer who recalls the story of how the team got accepted into the Techstars accelerator program.

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Freshman at UT Takes First Place at Recess Pitch Competition

SiliconHills

By HOJUN CHOI Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News Business freshman Anish Aggarwal, 18, and his proposal for tutoring service startup, Top Tier Learning, won the Recess pitch competition at the University of Texas at Austin Friday. Now he gets to travel to Los Angeles in January to represent UT in a national startup competition. […] The post Freshman at UT Takes First Place at Recess Pitch Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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5 SEO Habits Every Local Small Business Should Have

YFS Magazine

For a small local business, gaining organic website traffic from SEO is a great way to tap into a new client base and grow your clientele rapidly.

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Going Green is Good for Dell and the Environment

SiliconHills

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News It turns out going green is good for Dell and not just in a feel good way. The company not only has greatly reduced its impact on the environment through recycling and cutting carbon emissions in the last decade, but it has generated profits in the process. […] The post Going Green is Good for Dell and the Environment appeared first on SiliconHills.

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“Most of You Don’t Want Success As Much As You Want to Sleep” (via Michael Jordan)

Scott Edward Walker

Welcome to our weekly series “Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs.” Each week, we share a favorite video clip to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs. Why? Because we know how tough it is being an entrepreneur; and whether you’re launching your venture, iterating on your business model or raising funds, you need a little juice to help you push the ball forward.

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Your LTV Math is Wrong

Seeing Both Sides

There has been a lot of good stuff written over the years on the topic of calculating customer lifetime value (LTV). Thus, it amazes me how many times I discover faulty thinking when I talk to entrepreneurs regarding their LTV math. One portfolio company executive confessed to me last week that he knows he is doing it wrong but he just didn't have the time to research the best way to do the LTV calculation.