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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. Human Computer Interaction. Protocol Digital Life.

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

YoungUpstarts

A method of solving time-consuming computing tasks by utilizing multiple computers usually united into a parallel computing system is commonly referred to as grid computing or distributed computing. In 2007, the BOINC framework became the home of World Community Grid , a distributed computing project created by the IBM Corporation.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

All manual operations. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. I look for firms in which some of the partners (my partner) have operational experience and know what it’s like to wake up every day and be an entrepreneur. Folksonomy.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.]

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Andy is a global thought leader in remote work, telecommuting, and distributed workforces having served as CEO of Crossover and Sococo and on the board of Texas Central, our new bullet train. Working with Joe, he founded RideAustin to provide ridesharing to Austin when Uber and Lyft were driven out by city council.

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