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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

In the last two years, my productivity also improved when I started developing and experimenting with my own business ideas during my spare time. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. I learned Ruby on Rails. My first project is Eventr.

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How an experienced Asp.net developer multiplied his productivity.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

In the last two years, my productivity also improved when I started developing and experimenting with my own business ideas during my spare time. So far I have developed two projects in Ruby on Rails. and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. I learned Ruby on Rails. My first project is Eventr.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. We bootstrapped it. Qualtrics has 8500 customers today, but back in his father’s basement in 2002, things weren’t so rosy. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. We bootstrapped it. Qualtrics has 8500 customers today, but back in his father’s basement in 2002, things weren’t so rosy. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

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From Business Guy to Programmer

Spencer Fry

and How to Bootstrap among others. Back in what seems like forever ago, I started freshman year of college in 2002 with the full intention of majoring in Computer Science. Since I began writing several years ago, I've written exclusively about the business side of startups; my most popular articles being What's a Non-Programmer To Do?

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. They are the first company specializing in the monetization of after-download pages (“thank you&# pages) using their own fully developed ad-serving platform. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys.