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Data wars heating up – Microsoft buys DATAllegro

BeyondVC

Knowing that they had some limitations with SQL Server, Microsoft announced its acquisition of DATAllegro (full disclosure: my fund is an investor in competitor Greenplum ) to enter the data warehousing market. As I have written in previous posts, what you do with data will be one of the next battlegrounds on the web.

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Min.us Wins Babson Student Business Of The Year Award

Campus Entrepreneurship

His work was crucial in building Microsoft SQL Server 2000. He has years of experience in SEO, online marketing, operations and management. John is currently a senior at Babson College. Carl Hu has over a decade of experience in IT. Shortly after, he served as Director of Technology at Progress Software. Later he served as CTO at AppZero.

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Digital Dashboards: Strategic & Tactical: Best Practices, Tips, Examples

Occam's Razor

Your dashboard should have some data, but what it really needs are three sections: Insights, Actions, Business Impact. Your dashboards don't need more wiz-bang graphics or for them to be displays of your javascript powers to sql your hadoop to make big query cloud compute. They need more English language. Ok, three boxes.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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Technology stack choice for startups

kenegozi.com

As for the "Hollywood is not a place for startups" - well probably yCombinator is currently only suited for the valley, however a startup that already has a seed investment, and has a reasonably crafted business plan, does not *have* to be in the "meet all the dudes in the coffee shops" scene. activerecord(23). alt-net-israel(8).

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

SQL database hosting from browser.Python/Javascript APIs. That’s why we gathered a collection of 20 online resources for European startups that will help you with business plans, recruiting, publicity and networking. BPS : Business Plan Servicesâ?? business planning. Business Culture.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply You don’t need a business plan yet: 7 ideas for Customer Development « Information Maven: Greg Meyer , on May 22, 2011 at 7:37 am said: [.] further along in the information you’ll need to build your business plan. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.