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SXSW Pitch Finalist: StrongSalt

Austin Startup

StrongSalt also lowers costs for companies by removing friction from encryption while making it accessible for all developers via the API platform. What’s your favorite thing about being based in San Jose, Calif.? What has the startup experience taught you about life? Don’t be stressed?—?tomorrow tomorrow is another day.

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7 Easy and Effective Customer Segments to Target in Facebook Ads

ConversionXL

Facebook ads are based on an ad auction system , so increased competition drives the cost of using the platform up. According to the Nanigans Facebook Advertising Benchmarks Report , there’s been a 92% year over year CPM increase for the ECommerce vertical. A year earlier, they had almost half that, with 3 million advertisers.

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

blog.expensify.com

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. It’s like arguing against vertical software. I fit all criteria of the people you’re looking for except for the junior developer one. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable. originalgeek.

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