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There’s Something Abuzz With GoodBuzz

YoungUpstarts

In 1993, it was during one of these long walks that he’d stumble on a philosophy that would determine his life’s path – that he’d do whatever it takes to succeed in life. .&# Mawuna Koutonin is the founder of London-based GoodBuzz , and his story is the stuff of dreams. The African Boy Who Could.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

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” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. ” And as impact goes, so does cost.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

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launched a contact management software. 7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. This brings a lot of new challenges also for people who are not directly involved in software engineering.