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Excerpt from "Do More Faster" - Avoid Co-Founder Conflict by Dharmesh Shah

ReadWriteStart

Contributors include dozens of TechStars mentors and founder alumni, including Dharmesh Shah the founder and CEO of HubSpot and the curator of the OnStartups blog and community. Too many people mix the notion of being a shareholder in a startup and having an operating role. Will the company be self-funded and bootstrapped?

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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant. Amazon AppStore – The Amazon Appstore (mobile/tablet) for Android and Fire OS operated by Amazon.com.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SyncBloc is a place that takes incredibly large files that are all stuck on your offline non-cloud service and helps you sync it with the cloud. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

The benchmark results should be reproducible by anyone, but the Netflix cloud platform automation for AWS makes it quick and easy to do this kind of test. There was no setup time, no discussions with IT operations about datacenter space and no more cost once the test was over.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Especially when the brand normally operate in an invisible category like washing powder. Popup-e-nomics – As retail continues to struggle as a permanent fixture, smart and nimble operators are leveraging events, seasonality and instant geo-located retail parties as we move into the popup-e-nomics era.

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