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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

The future of the Internet is video. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. She is committed to improving representation in Austin’s technology landscape.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Siebel—Tom Siebel.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Reply Quora , on March 12, 2011 at 12:54 am said: What are the free software tools and online services one should leverage for an internet start-up just getting started from an idea?… Thanks for your work.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. My first instinct as an internet user is to close this browser window instantly because this just screams bad. And if you did make one that was kind of like these three, in that vertical, you’d be awesome. You need an internet surface that you can write on.

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