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Couple makes it to Shark Tank with invention to later find knock-off products selling on Amazon

NEWINGTON — You may have heard of the show Shark Tank. It’s the show where you can take a smart invention and grow a business from it with the help of industry gurus. One company from Newington …
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Jeff Bezos: Amazon is ‘the best place in the world to fail’

“I believe we are the best place in the world to fail (we have plenty of practice!), and failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to work, it’s not an experiment. Most large …
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In annual letter, Jeff Bezos says Amazon is an ‘invention machine’ defined by failure

Amazon’s culture has been in the media spotlight since last summer, when The New York Times published a widely read article about the company’s “bruising” workplace environment. Jeff Bezos addressed that reputation, indirectly, in his annual …
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Amazon announces invention of ‘leave share,’ so both parents can take paid time off

Reeling from lousy publicity, Amazon rolls out generous family leave policy. On the heels of some spectacularly bad publicity about its workplace culture, Amazon has rolled out a new family leave policy that allows for 20 weeks of paid leave, plus the …
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Amazon launches Vegas trade show for AWS developers, users (Barb Darrow/GigaOM)

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:
Amazon launches Vegas trade show for AWS developers, users  —  Amazon is looking more like old-school IT vendor every day.  In November, it will host its first-ever partner and customer conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas.  The web services giant posted a “save the date” for the three-day AWS re:invent show on its blog Wednesday.

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