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Strategy Roundtable: 5 Cloud Computing Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

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Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. For you, readers, here they are: Sponsor.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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When I started my consulting business, I was fortunate enough to have a mentor who guided me, and the best advice she gave me was to name my company something about myself, but not my actual name. I am originally from India but have been away from the country for almost 16 years. Thanks to Kerry Roberts, Everipe ! #8-

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. Telepathic, a new technology startup, is bringing A/B testing to the world of mass-market fiction and storytelling. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). At home we have entrepreneurs who think global day one. A conducive business environment. Think Philips Electronics, NXP, ASML and Tom Tom.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Go to meetings of any campus entrepreneurs groups. You’ve done well so far. Post flyers around the CS labs.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

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Are there other tools that you’ve used that you think would be helpful to share with other entrepreneurs and founders? Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. How long should people vest – four years?

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