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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT. The discussion struck a chord with us.

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PC For Rent – How To Make Money Searching For Extraterrestrial Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. Prime time. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Personal Technology. What They Know.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites. Another important web 2.0

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. Follow your network.”. Trust your allies too.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel.

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