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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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[Review] The Good Fail

YoungUpstarts

He highlights the litany of woes including excessive demand brought about by a PR move, litigation, partner defections and component supply issues finally led to the company’s very public shutdown, destroying Latman’s – who then was known as Rick Latman – life in the process.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

An on-demand ride sharing service. Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. An on-demand mobile marketplace allowing busy people to outsource their errands and tasks for a fee. Here are 10 online platforms that want you to show you the money: 1. Task Rabbit.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. reinvented, with more people online and trained. It was mostly timing.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. In other words, the most compelling reasons for NOT relying on remote engineering talent to build software no longer apply. We test for software engineering fundamentals, and we use technology-specific tests.

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Recapping Q4 2019

Version One Ventures

Jobber was also added to Deloitte’s 2019 Technology Fast 500™ list – in addition to being recognized as the second fastest growing software company in Canada! Ada was named a G2 leader in chatbot software. G2’s recognition is based on verified reviews and real users (in other words, the people actually using Ada).

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Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! What makes it scalable and more of a marketing channel is that it's managed using software. If I can build a partner program using software with a thousand different partners, with a thousand different tactics, I, I have inherently a, a diversified portfolio. Like this show?