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Robotics (RPA) Brings New Rules to Process Automation

Austin Startup

BP3 has been helping our clients find a faster way to do things since 2007. Once a cost is known, it is hard to resist an organizational imperative to reduce that cost, even if the ROI is quite high, even if the right strategic move is to spend *more* to further improve ROI or differentiation from competition. Automation ?—?I’m

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What I *Would Have* Said at TechCrunch Disrupt

Both Sides of the Table

You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. I understand why he wants to differentiate himself but I wonder if a scorched Earth strategy against the main funding source for your company pays in the long run. We all know that.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

might have been a lot less differentiated. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. companies versus the Web 1.0

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

In my third co-op term I got a job at RIM (now BlackBerry), I started in May 2007, about a month before the iPhone initially came out. The company is differentiating itself from the competition — both domestically in North America and in Asia — with its HTML5 focus.

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SaaS Wars: Europe Awakens

Cracking the Code

Our analysis estimates that the number of SaaS companies created has grown 4x between 2007-09 and 2013-15, and the amount raised by European SaaS companies has more than doubled. The first is the B2B global platform play, such as Algolia, the search-as-a-service API Nicolas Dessaigne and Julien Lemoine have built out of Paris.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Rich and award-winning line of location-based applications for the end-users (VAS) • Maps and LBS APIs for developers as a CSP branded developers zone, enabling more apps in portal and increased usage of data, SMS and MMS. TodaCell is a Managed Premium Mobile Ad Network established in 2007.

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