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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm. It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.