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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

VP of Business Development, DNAnexus - Palo Alto, California In the not too distant future, everything will be determined by your DNA--your job, what retro 50's decor you'll buy, how tightly you'll slick back your hair, whether or not you can date Uma Thurman. Thousands of our users create interesting content every day.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

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Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). but now they were actually trying to implement it. (If The Nine Teams Present.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

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Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers. The average Joe Developer/QA professional seldom opts to use one of the aforementioned vendor’s solutions, preferring to use a self-built solution, usually based on open-source JMeter.

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