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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. 2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). Viktor Marohni? If you wanted a website, you had to pay someone a lot of money to set it up for you.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Folksonomy.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Use a down period to nail down the core product features, get your architecture right and make sure your first customers see value in the product. Image source ).

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Fog Creek Compensation

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. Competence extends to architecture, user interface design, project planning, and other project-level issues.

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10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups

ReadWriteStart

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Even something simple like converting HTTP links to HTTPS or updating “number of likes” in real-time, becomes a monumental architectural challenge.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Even more tragically, the company's founder, Danny Lewin, was killed on one of the 9/11 airplanes.