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Bringing startup expertise to the boardroom

NZ Entrepreneur

Starboard’s maritime domain awareness software is used globally to monitor national waters and tackle illegal fishing, trans-national crime, prevent biosecurity outbreaks and protect at-sea assets. Recently, NZ Defence awarded Starboard a contract to improve NZ’s maritime awareness with immediate use across multiple government agencies.

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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

Both Sides of the Table

Your goal is to increase the top end of the funnel (more people using the free product) and increase the rate of conversion to paid. They realized for them this was dumb because people didn’t want to use up their credits so viral adoption wasn’t happening quickly enough. This video discusses issues like: 1.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. We're entering another election year, and recent history has given us unprecedented access to information and interaction with our elected representatives. Reader beware.). Open Government.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Mix it up with different agencies, people run out or creativity/contacts. Point: don’t waste your time on people that don’t “get” what you are doing]] People were not returning his call, he would call people 50 times but no reply, • Used to drive to work in pain in chest but could not let others know what is going on.

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

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

Gust

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. By the fall of 2004, the site’s explosive growth attracted the attention of many potential investors and buyers.

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Directus wants to democratize data across the enterprise

TechCrunch

Using the service’s tools, developers can easily turn any SQL database into an API to power their apps — or use the service’s no-code tools to build apps that way, too. ” And while business users can use the service, too, the core audience — even for the no-code/low-code tool, is developers.

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