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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

This would inspire him to start GoodBuzz in 2005, a free web-based peer-to-peer referral network that would allow artists, bands, associations, public organizations, event promoters and organizers to help promote each others’ events. – to promote their campaigns. .&# The African Boy Who Could.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0

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Want to Work for a Startup? 10 Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

mashable.com

For example, if the startup says it plans to launch two new tech features for its product and youre applying to be an engineer, youll likely have a great first three months. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2014 Mashable, Inc. Follow @mashable. Must Reads.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing. Since, Daisi Media Corp is basically a shell for our media channels and family of sites and e-commerce businesses, I had the freedom to focus more creativity on naming other brands of the business.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. You can see the entire presentation here.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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[Interview] Tony Saldanha, Author of ‘Why Digital Transformations Fail: The Surprising Disciplines of How to Take Off and Stay Ahead’

YoungUpstarts

I’d led the systems integration as CIO of the Gillette company into P&G in 2005, and run multi-billion dollar IT and Shared Services operations in every region of the world. That would be like debating whether to stay with horsepower or shift to an internal combustion engines during the Second Industrial Revolution.