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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Think about that.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education.

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Startup Tools

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Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. Hoptoad [link] – Collects production application errors, groups them so developers can see one backtrace and how many times the error occurred.