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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Notable Aspects of Their Business: 1) Kayak’s an Ad Business More Than a Lead Gen Business : To some this may be semantics more than anything. of Kayak’s 2010 revenue.

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A Guide: Successfully Hiring Code Bootcamp Grads

For Entrepreneurs

Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution that I invested in in 2013 and where I currently serve on the board. Prior to founding Salsify, Rob was at IBM, Endeca and Cambridge Semantics in senior product management roles.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology - Part II

semanticuniverse.com

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. The Semantic Web standards - RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, and SKOS are new technologies whose proponents hope will be adopted on a wide scale. Things that are easy to learn are easier to adopt.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

It has transformed marketing into how do we find people and persuade them that our product or services is worth doing? In other words, creating a customer that comes to their own conclusion that your product or service is worth their time or their money and that being the purpose of a business. That’s great. Robert Rose: No.

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

Both Sides of the Table

DataSift was never built on a single platform and never desired or expected to be Twitter’s re-syndication provider as its sole business. But of course customers will have to do some technical work to migrate products and will lose DataSift functionality that Twitter / Gnip does not possess directly. billion people.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Takadu’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product enables utility companies to detect leaks, bursts and equipment failures as well as alerting personnel of any problems through email and SMS. ConTIPI’s product has approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). in August 2010. GOOGLE INSTANT BASED ON ISRAELI DEVELOPMENT.