Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. We finally settled on a $1.99

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We tried obvious competitors as well as long-shots. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. As a language, its inelegant. Every other system Ive seen has some drawback like this.

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