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Content management platform Contentful breaks into beta and secures seed round funding

The Next Web

There were also a number of smaller investments from angels that as part of the agreement now form a part of the company’s shiny new advisory board. Contentful takes an “API-first approach” to content in order to be able to feed it to any Web-enabled device from a single input.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will Smallstep , Clay , Dark , and Windmill emerged out of stealth.

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Growth: The problem solver that creates problems

The Next Web

Here is a graph of the load we have on our API and you can see the peaks in minutes: The company got bigger. Adopt faster, understand the needed set of skills and surround yourself with smart people that have done it before (advisory board is my preferred option). Build an API, scaling without it would be impossible.

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How to Get Sponsorship for Your Business, Book or Podcast

ConversionXL

Zendesk maintains a Ruby on Rails API client, making it relevant to the conference as a company and potential employer for Ruby on Rails developers. It contains the story of your property, mission statement, sponsor benefits, demographics, marketing plan, goals, media opportunities, advisory board, and the sponsor fees.”.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control. I'm not sure that it makes sense to consider, say, PayPal's subpar API, as technical debt. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Use their api to handle payment related stuff. Rovi API has everything you need for information. Rdio provides the music and the player via an API. Box API lets you store files dynamically! Camera, video, and most of the APIs described above for web Tools). Google Geocoding API. Managing APIs.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. As for #3. I agree completely. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) with the post.