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Startup Series: Gibraltar Software with Kendall Miller

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Kendall Miller is a founder at .NET development tools vendor Gibraltar Software. They are two years into their their startup experiment and are becoming a small, mature company with some great products. How much did they need to fund their startup? How do they market and spread the word? What if there are free or open source versions of their software out there?

Startup Series: Growing ZocDoc with Nick Ganju

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Startup Series: Building Octopus Deploy with Paul Stovell

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Inside the Design Process - Redesigning Scott's blog with Jeremy Kratz

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Microsoft Research: Trinity is a Graph Database and a Distributed Parallel Platform for Graph Data

August 18, 2011 00:31:58 23.03 MB Downloads: 0

Scott talks via Skype to Haixun Wang at Microsoft Research Asia about Trinity: a distributed graph database and computing platform. What is a GraphDB? How is it different from a traditional Relational DB, a Document DB or even just a naive in-memory distributed data structure? Will your next database be a graph database?

Within Windows with Rafael Rivera

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