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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.” Take note of what Paul Graham said in 2004: [link] — he is talking along similar lines. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable.

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