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[Interview] Jonmichael Moy, Silicon Valley Veteran On Leading Digital Products To Market

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Jonmichael Moy (Jon Michael Moy) may be a seasoned veteran of Silicon Valley, but this accomplished, dedicated technology executive with more than seventeen years of experience in management and operations, product and business development and marketing has now brought his talents to Toronto.

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Building A Tech Startup: Avoiding Silicon Valley Mishaps

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Instagram soon came along and scooped up the remains of its user base, leading it to take over its corner of the market where Google could have easily succeeded. Worse yet, they may simply hire employees of high skill out of your market area and deny you the workforce you need to make your idea feasible.

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Tackling The Talent Gap: Best Practices For Uncovering New Hires

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Robust startup economies are popping up in communities all over the country, proving that entrepreneurs can succeed outside of Silicon Valley. flexibility, camaraderie, close collaboration with company leadership, building something new), along with the benefits of your location – specifically for those outside of Silicon Valley (i.e.

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[Singapore][Event] AppHACK Singapore 2013 by AngelHack

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To be held at the offices of Microsoft Singapore on 23-24 November, AngelHack Singapore aims to get various judges from Silicon Valley to judge the competition, where the overall winner of AppHack Singapore 2013 will get accepted into AngelHack’s global pre-accelerator program, HACKcelerator.

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Why Successful Startups Go To The UAE

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For an increasing number of successful startups, they are foregoing London, New York, or Silicon Valley for the business-friendly UAE. In fact, some have dubbed it the Silicon Valley of the Middle East. The competition is fierce and investors are just as savvy here as they are in London or Silicon Valley.

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Inconsistency And Premature Scaling Main Cause For Startup Failure: Blackbox

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Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, in June released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. Inconsistent startups monetize 0.5 to 3 times as many of their customers early on.

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14 Interesting Findings From The Startup Genome Project

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This week Blackbox , founded by entrepreneurs Bjoern Lasse Herrmann and Max Marmer, released its first Startup Genome Report — a 67-page in depth analysis on what makes Silicon Valley startups successful based on profiling over 650 startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%.