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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? My guess is many millions more than we spent.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. (The Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Jobs: See more on our Job Board.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. They are the place where all the open source code increasingly lives.