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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

One of the recurring themes in the people that I've spoken to in the last few weeks is a society wide sudden realization about the importance of science as the engine of progress, And the importance of having science driven policy, as if somehow we didn't know that before, but somehow we didn't. Let me ask you about your background.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites.

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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Small Business Marketing: Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). The more content on your site, the more attractive your site becomes for search engines (more about search engine optimization in tip 9 below).

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Service-oriented architecture. So I feel I have pretty good mix of horse sense and formal education. I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years. This bill will NOT affect our company. Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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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. And what’s the point anyway? 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.

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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.