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The Most Critical Startup Talent Crunch: Great Leaders at Growing Companies

September 26, 2012 -- Business Insider

A lot of people have talked about the need for NYC to have a PayPal--a multi-billion dollar exit that scattered on the rest of the community a bunch of experienced startup talent that scaled a company over time, as well as a host of new angel investors...

These people, in an environment where over 50 companies will participate in accelerator programs in NYC every year, are out starting companies instead of joining big companies as employee 50, 75, or 200. That's a real problem because most of these startups will fail, yet a company with a real business that sits at 50 employees has a serious chance of hiring 450 more people--people who could grow with a company over time and create way more companies than the accelorator might. How many companies can be traced back to DoubleClick, for example--even above and beyond Kevin Ryan and Dwight Merriman who went on to build several hugely successful companies like Gilt and 10Gen.

10gen to Offer Free MongoDB Training Online

September 26, 2012 -- Database Trends and Applications

10gen announced that it will offer free online MongoDB training courses starting in October. Under the new 10gen Education program, 10gen’s instructors will teach a series of courses designed to reach hundreds of thousands of software developers interested in learning how to use the MongoDB platform as the foundation for building new applications.

10gen CEO, co-founder and lead MongoDB developer Dwight Merriman will teach the first course, MongoDB for DBAs. Students may now register at education.10gen.com, with classes to begin in October.

Want free MongoDB classes? edX and 10gen are happy to oblige

September 25, 2012 -- GigaOM

10gen, the company behind the popular open-source database MongoDB, is joining the MOOC movement.

On Tuesday, the company is announcing that it is partnering with edX, the open-source online education initiative from Harvard and MIT, to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) on how to use the MongoDB platform.

As part of the collaboration, edX, which uses MongoDB, will allow 10gen to access its source code and make improvements to it that can be used by other students.

10gen will provide online MongoDB training

September 25, 2012 -- H Online

10gen, the company behind the NoSQL database MongoDB, has announced free-of-charge online training courses for the product starting in October. Teaching the first two announced courses in the 10gen Education programme are 10gen CEO and MongoDB lead developer, Dwight Merriman, 10gen's Director of Consulting Engineering, Richard Kreuter and the company's VP of Education, Andrew Erlichson.

MOOCs Shift From Curiousity to Employability

September 25, 2012 -- Huffington Post

With huge investments and lots of fanfare massive open online courses (MOOC) are the higher ed topic of the year...Companies are joining the MOOC party, especially those that promote open resources. In June, Google ran a power search MOOC. Today the developer of MongoDB, the leading open source database company, announced today that they will offer two courses on the edX platform.

MongoDB is a leading unstructured database with more than 150,000 downloads per month. Mongo is a hot skill set, usually #2 after generic HTML 5 jobs on recruiting boards.

Massive Online Learning: 10gen and MongoDB Teach the World

September 25, 2012 -- DevOps Angle

10gen, a provider of cloud services and consultancy for the MongoDB NoSQL database, is working on training courses that will be available to developers worldwide starting October.

The massively open online courses, or MOOCs, will be delivered under the 10gen Education Program, and individuals who want to sign up can already register on the company’s site.

Intelligence Agency Invests In Big Data Management

September 19, 2012 -- InformationWeek

In-Q-Tel, the venture investment firm for U.S. intelligence agencies, is investing in 10gen, developer of the MongoDB open source database. MongoDB is a document-oriented, NoSQL database that "bridges the gap" between relational databases and key-value stores, according to 10gen. Its ability to store and query both structured and unstructured data with good performance at scale is what made MongoDB an attractive investment, said In-Q-Tel VP Robert Ames in a news release

Open source in 2012: Bigger and better than ever

September 18, 2012 -- InfoWorld

This year's Best of Open Source Software awards includes a whopping 125 products in 7 categories. The real story is the technology leadership so many of these products display...Take the explosion in open source databases. You can't get much hotter than MongoDB, the document database from 10gen, which wins a Bossie for the second year in a row.

In-Q-Tel stakes a claim in MongoDB, invests in 10gen

September 18, 2012 -- GigaOM

The world just can’t seem to get enough of MongoDB, the popular NoSQL database...The company is in such demand because its product, the open source MongoDB, is very popular with developers building applications that utilize a NoSQL database rather than, or in addition to, a traditional relational database such as MySQL. Seemingly everyone — from one-man shops to Foursquare to Disney — uses MongoDB, primarily as a part of their web application architectures or as the database layer in their big data stacks.

MongoDB Update Highlights Analytics

September 6, 2012 -- Application Developer Trends

10gen Inc.'s recent update of its popular NoSQL database, MongoDB, improves analytics and boosts performance, the company said.

MongoDB Version 2.2 features an aggregation framework that "provides the foundation for real-time analytics," the company said. Other reported improvements include location-aware services for multi-datacenter scenarios, better concurrency and more than 600 other enhancements.

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