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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Founding Date: 2004.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. Learn to write code yourself. link] # 4 hours ago Going #lean and testing with imagemaps, cuz concepts are cheap and code is expensive. # YHOO ) in its second act.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.). Resume length.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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Brand-Owned Terms: The Power—and Process—of Naming a Movement

ConversionXL

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” What if the shift to subscriptions was not a trend limited to software, but one that is going on in many industries?

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10 Rules for Winning (and Making More Money) in 2014

ConversionXL

Barack Obama won the 2012 US elections and his data-driven team played a huge part in it. And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). If you’re still doing SEO by optimizing for keywords, you should know: it’s not 2008 anymore. Nate Silver. Any guesses? So this is the past.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8

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