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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

Justice Department and 20 state Attorneys General brought suit again Microsoft for anticompetitive practices designed to maintain its monopoly in PC operating systems and internet browsers. Until then no tech company had an organized lobbying organization of significance in DC. Fast forward 25 years.

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

A B2B research, ratings and reviews platform located in Washington, DC, they provide in-depth client reviews, data-driven content and vetted market leaders. Instead the needs of your users and your business could be met via an app that is accessed using the phone’s internet browser. Does the app development company talk about web apps?

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The Internet Makes DC Closer To Homer

Feld Thoughts

I’m far away from Washington DC today. Actually, I’m a lot closer to Russia than I am to DC and that makes me an expert on Russia. But my friend the Internets (actually, the Web) brought DC closer to me today. DC Topic #2 is the Startup Visa. So, I thought I’d share them with you.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

In addition, those funds enabled the company to open a DC field office. With that money, it was able to expand its home office and establish a separate manufacturing and refurbishment facility nearby. Before obtaining the loan, the agency was barely bringing in $1 million in annual revenues.

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

Both Sides of the Table

There were online tools to book this stuff but the Internet booking sites were early. ” I was on a flight last year from DC to LAX. Yet I was a foreigner so I got away with being different. I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. But I don’t want to pay that much.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond"

Startup Lessons Learned

Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

The Skyworks Solutions growth is largely due to its key involvement in IoT, payments on mobile devices, and Internet connectivity. Thanks to CEO David Aldrich, the company undoubtedly used its ongoing relationship with Apple as the stepping stone needed for it to make its own advancement in quarterly earnings and dividend.

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