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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. According to 451 Research , “For vendors with less than $1 B in revenue, we estimate a CAGR of 39%.”

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Business contracts are a pain for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Quickly Legal.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

This isn’t a discussion of the merits of Closed vs. Open Source, but it’s worth noting that each Microsoft server costs around $1,000 to license, and their database software costs between £2,000 - £16,000 per CPU (most servers have two to four) to license. framework was built.

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Monday night: HBS Angels of NY Investor Meeting and Company Presentations

David Teten

Co-Founders Jeff Fernandez, Surag Mungekar, and Nick Narodny are CEO, CTO, and Chief Content Officer, respectively. IvyDate is a highly private, matching based community which does not place member information in a browsable database. Yet, there isn’t one place for credible Internet education and training.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. This happens a lot.