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A former Telsa employee who worked with Elon share inside information on Elon and how he will turn Twitter around
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Entrperneurs Lesson Learned - Accounting Matters For Cloud (as a service)

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2012/11/20/exclusive-autonomy-missed-revenue-by-90-the-big-bad-data-crime-of-the-century/

HP's buys company for $11b & 90% of it was fraud because of accounting mistake. Tech entrepreneurs need to know the difference between product revenue and Service Revenue

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DevOps is hot area right now.. applications are driving the infrastructure and it's changing what cloud is..developers are in charge
Big time developers have always said that OS X is a better Unix development environment than Linux. Dell is smart to come out with a power Linux development station. My friends have been replacing their unix workstations with Macintoshes. Mac OS X is basically plain Unix -BSD flavor. Now Dell is going there. Smart by Dell

@furrier

I cannot duplicate the error..sometimes i've seen providers have f'd up dns where some bad stuff happens..
thanks for pointing that out we are not doing that on our end so wanted to let you know that..it might be coming from another source...i'm investigating

john (founder of the site)

Re:Of Booze and Brogrammers on Saturday April 14, 2012 @06:15PM (#3842134)
LobbyCon is the best action for data ...it's all about the hallways. I will say that lots of folks know each other online so meeting face 2 face is a fun time to bond and party rather than info gathering which conferences are not good for anyway (due to the real time web)

-john furrier palo alto

Node.js All Stars Create “Bite Sized” Consulting Firm

http://servicesangle.com/blog/2012/01/23/node-js-all-stars-create-bite-sized-consulting-firm/

The Node Firm, hopes to help solve that problem by offering “bite sized” consulting to companies in need of Node.js help. Many companies end up building applications in Node.js that end up having to be radically changed a year later due to common mistakes

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Series B are even tougher than an A round unless you get a tier 1 who will support you... very key to that A round decision
Investors get a free look at the execution savvy of the founders and their idea in the new seed marketplace ...so it's more efficient for the VCs thx to the ycombo and other incubators...people can slam all they want on incubators but its a nice working model...gets more ideas exposed and funded...

cheers John F @siliconangle

Timeline ANGLE - Turning Users into Developers - it's the future

http://siliconangle.com/furrier/2011/09/23/facebook-timeline-it-will-turn-consumer-users-into-developers-future-user-experience-is-coding/

Forget that Facebook is AOL what they are doing is turning the user into a developer..users develop their own and connect...like programming - lighting in a bottle for Facebook

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Did Hacker Shut Down NetApp Stock today

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/11/17/did-hacker-get-netapp-earnings-early-netapp-earnings-mistake-causes-stock-to-plummet-on-unauthorized-access/

NetApp stock was suspended on the Nasdaq after the earnings where released early by some unauthorized access. Normally companies release after the bell, but in NetApps case it was suspect because it was released early.It looks like a hacker might have accessed the companies web site to get the numbers early. If this is the case then this is a big deal on that alone never mind that NetApp might...

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Re:How ecosystems make for good clouds on Friday December 18, 2009 @12:21AM (#1002590)
Microsoft of the old "Gates" days build a developer ecosystem built for geeks to create value. Microsoft only killed competitors never partners

What does Cloud Ready Mean?

http://siliconangle.net/ver2/2009/10/28/what-is-cloud-ready/

The "Cloud Ready" movement is very important for infrastructure, platforms, and applications to converge across all networks. Although important and relevant, it’s early. The vendors that are open and innovative will win. The wildcard variable in all of this – the role "open source" plays. The maturation of open source is leveling the playing field. It’s opening the market and threatening...

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