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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S. Up until January 31, I was running the nonprofit that I founded called Code for America, for ten years. She served as the U.S. 33:59) The value of being useful. (35:20)

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

They face lots of competition and few barriers to entry so the future growth and profitability can legitimately be questioned, but still… what Andrew Mason and the rest of the team have built in such a short time is truly remarkable.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. They are in school, right now, all across this country.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life. Some of the largest global financial institutions are evaluating BlazingDB given that current market offerings simply cannot address the demands of large scale database processing.

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Transcript of Using AI with Human Touch to Create Great Social Content

Duct Tape Marketing

They had AT&T involved, and Bank of America, and the IRS, and 10s of thousands of small and mediums businesses. John Jantsch: Let’s say I’m a person that likes to read lots of blogs, and news sources, so I’ve actually aggregated them into some sort of reader. John Jantsch: Yeah. Chernis: Yes.

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. Don’t be evil?

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Startups are the new MTV – and 15 other thoughts for 2015

Start Up Blog

They are not only a cool thing to be involved in, but as like pop stardom in the 1980s, the promise of potential riches and global fame are part of the attraction. Just consider this for a moment: 29 of America’s 100 top-paid CEOs collected more in compensation than their corporations paid in income taxes. Don’t be evil?