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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

We’re highlighting key members of the community to find out. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Go direct and network your way to the people you need to meet or find them directly in the local community. Plenty of people are willing to help you for free.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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The Los Angeles Times, Sleepy Medical Interns Called a Road Hazard , by Karen Kaplan, January 13, 2005: Studies have shown that being awake for 21 hours impairs drivers as much as having a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.08, which is the legal limit for noncommercial drivers in the U.S. Copyright © 2005 Evan Robinson.

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

blog.expensify.com

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. It’s new businesses.