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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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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. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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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. Plus, with memory-resident code, its pretty easy to forget which version of the code is actually running at any given time. This let us hire extremely high-caliber programmers to work on it.

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