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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. Monetate Mobile adds mobile-native navigation, search, GPS store location, cart access and more, to any site, overnight.

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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

The accelerator, which counts Amazon CTO Werner Vogels among its startup mentors , will be showcasing its first batch of startups (see list below) in Silicon Valley on the 20th of September, followed by a panel discussion about “The Future of the European Startup Community” Sounds riveting!

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Assume $160 for a Ruby on Rails course plus free Heroku, a cloud platform as a service that allows you to instantly deploy an app.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

They seized the opportunities presented by open APIs, and they rode the ongoing shift to mobile devices. Best of all, the Web and mobile app significantly cuts down on unnecessary email, transforming the way teams communicate. Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age.

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Entrepreneurial Change We Can All Believe In

Growthink Blog

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Boyan Josic’s Daily Deal Media Conference in Chicago. Hire a programmer here, a freelance public relations staffer there. Book a plane ticket or two to see a prospective partner, and maybe while doing so buy a new laptop or tablet to better communicate the proposed strategic synergies.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. Sandboxx is a social media platform used by over one million service members. In the 90’s, there was a famous TV spot in Spain from Renault tagging the new young generation entering labor market.

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

Every week, I run across many companies who tell me they’re looking for good referrals of software engineers, and particularly those with a good background in web-based or mobile technology. cloud computing (Amazon AWS and EC2, etc.) Social media related skills are also big, i.e. Facebook app development, and so on.