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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

So, if you think of building a skyscraper starting from really simple architectural materials. The main proteinase of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 shares a 96% similarity, which means that if the world had persisted in discovering a proteinase inhibitor against the 2003 version of SARS, COVID-19 might not even be a pandemic.

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

ConversionXL

Website information architecture is no joke, yet the overwhelming majority of businesses structure their site using the IMO method (“In my opinion…”). If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do a proper information architecture analysis. What is information architecture? One or two menus?

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. However, those templates were usually ugly and limited. Tons of customization was required if you wanted to actually create something nice.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. Because I have another advantage in that I could both build the initial architecture and write the website copy. The fallacy here is that you can copy what I did and get a customer. The truth is that even I cannot copy what I did to get my first customer. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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Getting The Website Information Architecture Right: How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences

ConversionXL

Information architecture is no joke, yet overwhelming majority of businesses have structured their site using the IMO method – “in my opinion” While common sense is a useful tool and a lot of sites are very simple (e.g. If you already have tens of pages on your site, you should do proper information architecture analysis.

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Want Your Business To Last? Here Are Seven Lessons You Should Learn.

YoungUpstarts

In our case, we’ve evolved from a company that developed the first software to graphically represent business processes in the 1990s, to a collaborative enterprise architecture tool in the 2000’s, and finally, to a social, web-based communication platform that includes integrated social media tools today. Pay Attention to the Trends.