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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

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by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Every personal and business computer is connected to the internet these days, which puts people and companies in harm’s way for cyber attacks. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end. The onset of death. Think again.

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It’s Better to Beg for Forgiveness than to Ask for Permission

Both Sides of the Table

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings.

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[Singapore][Competition] Rakuten Startup Challenge

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Japan-based electronic commerce and Internet service provider Rakuten has announced its first-ever Rakuten Startup Challenge in Singapore, a competition that looks at getting Singapore-based entrepreneurs and developers to develop personalized e-commerce websites using Rakuten’s APIs (Application Programming Interface).

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Are Mobile Platforms Austin’s Differentiator?

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And, of course, if you start counting non-US domestic hotbeds, you’ve got thriving mobile scenes in Western and Eastern EU countries, China, Japan, India, Korea, Brazil, etc. As Kleiner partner Mary Meeker so nicely summed up recently , mobile is the “it&# Internet trend of the moment. What does it mean?

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

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The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up: Face-to-Face Interaction No matter how small the internet has made the world, experts still recommend in-person networking as the No.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

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Partnering with the United Nations’ School Feeding initiative, the company blends business and activism by selling merchandise and donating the profits to Latin American, Asian, and African children in need. Mark Bao at Junior Biz , Feb. 22, 2010: Business wunderkind. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. There are lots of good reasons why I can’t have instantaneous access to this data, and each partner has their own.