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“I will say that a lot of tension arose from Googler’s expectations that the company’s culture had to be exactly the same as what it was when the company was one fifth the size” Former GOOG & MSFT executive (and multiple time founder) Javier Soltero on Career Advice, Big Company Culture, and Startup Hiring Tips

Hunter Walker

On a personal level, the idea that I had started my first professional job in an industry and an area that I had been so passionate about since I was a kid growing up in Puerto Rico. I suspect a lot of people my age who entered the industry at that time and who were not from California felt similarly.

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What I Noticed On Social Media During the 2017 Hurricane Season

Austin Startup

Irma and Maria together practically wiped out the entire island of Puerto Rico. In what seems to be a negative world, we’re not all bad 2017 will be more than likely be remembered as the time period where the Internet was full of confusion, trolls, and scams.

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

I see exhaustive execution of Lean Startup methodology often in the mobile/internet space. He leads Lean Startup workshops around the world, recently spending a lot of time in Singapore and Puerto Rico. Once they buy in, entrepreneurs in Japan follow and execute Lean Startup exhaustively. “I But I notice that in the U.S

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. We were so clueless about where San Jose was that at first the company admin got me tickets to San Jose Puerto Rico.).

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[ADV] How Charter Spectrum Services Can Grow Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Due to the increasing influence of the internet, there are countless ways through which you can grab more customers for your product or services. There are many providers in the US who provide internet, cable TV, and phone services for newly established business. Faster Internet for Faster Business Processing: “Time is money.”

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The search war is over, Google has won, and I couldn't be happier

aweissman.com

Overwhelmingly the students told us that Google was their starting point for Internet discovery. For example, in searching for a hotel in Puerto Rico , one of the top results is from tripadvisor , which delivers ratings, reviews, deals and related information to that search. I therefore declare the U.S. search war to be over.