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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

There are many analogies here for software development. He got people to do bootlegged mixtapes in new york, france and new zealand. He created demand. Sometimes he didn’t even have the product when he announced it but the hype would get him focused on what he had to produce. Cham had other ideas.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He led the department to 400% growth : MSN became the number one portal in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and numerous Asian countries. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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Go global or grow local? The Kiwi startup quandary

NZ Entrepreneur

The study revealed that if Niesh first targets growth domestically in New Zealand, they will be better able to replicate their model in overseas markets and have appropriate growth strategies. New Zealand startups need to know that the local market is limited by the relatively small population of 4.8

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Twitter Link Roundup #208 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The video above is a terrific anti-speeding ad from New Zealand. A radical new take on the world’s most design-forward light bulb – slate.me/1d0tjVS. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. by Becky McCray – crowdspring.co/1cXKpqQ.

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AI – Risk of Extinction

Start Up Blog

Michael Tontchev, a former Microsoft software developer and current senior software lead at Meta has his at 20 per cent. Both Peter Thiel and Google co-founder Larry Page have snapped up land in New Zealand and built bunkers. Here are some of the worried AI researchers and their P(Doom) percentages.

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Twitter Link Roundup #201 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Here’s a phenomenally creative new airline safety video from Virgin – it’s unlike anything you’ve seen on other airlines, except maybe the videos from Air New Zealand, including their latest video with Betty White. Customer Service and a Culture of Helping - crowdspring.co/1cGIiqr. 1b71eMn.