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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. How did the site come about? It hit me there needed to be a place for people to post and share their own dogs.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Imagine that you can develop software on your local computer but the entire service is delivered virtually through a partner in the same way people consumer energy with all of the scale benefits that go with that. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. They’re cutting salaries and making the last tens of thousands — or if they’re lucky a hundred thousand — last. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. Source VentureBeat ]. -