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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said.

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Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. We’ve had a lot of challenges that we’ve overcome, for example, hiring and retaining an engineering team when we were a tiny little company, it was hard to get a high quality engineer to come bet their career on you. I’ve never made software before or even a website.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. Expensify Blog.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Youll notice a pattern: most of the key features that enabled PHPs success are considered among its defects by experts in language design. I can design with my brain coming first - the way I like it.

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