Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Every change required a server restart.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. I figured the real problem now was scaling my web application with the influx of new users and handling the overwhelming number of requests to pay me. You need clever, carefully crafted copy and well-designed landing pages. (Powered by LaunchBit ). He is a Ph.D.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Have an account? Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Learn Web Design, Coding & more! Ben Gremillion ● CSS3 , Learn to Code , Make a Website. Not long ago designers who laid out web pages also had to plunge into myriad layers of nested tables, ferreting out that one misplaced or making the same tedious width change across many pages. Learn More.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms. As the mobile application space continues to explode, developers are increasingly using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 to aid in the creation of web apps and native mobile apps. Have an account?

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Penguin : Released April 2012, this algorithm put tighter guidelines on website optimization and adjusted a number of web spam factors, including keyword stuffing, cloaking, unnatural links and content spinning. Google just wants to make the web a better place, and it does that by rewarding people who do things right. Topics to follow.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Amazon Web Services. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Web Tools: Hereâ??s

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. routes to customers which are more under your control and more likely to stand out from the background noise on the web. And no, putting retweet buttons on web pages doesn’t count.) But there are others.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

At the beginning of Coremetrics, there was no such thing as “the end of software” (a term that Salesforce.com popularized and now they are the largest Software as a Service company in the history of the world, with a market cap as of this writing of $132.7 Software as a Service. Eventually the term ASP came along?—?Application

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). Web Video Roundup. Dev & Design Highlights. January 22, 2012 07:43:33.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago. Have an account? Kayserian sees what he calls “angel developing&# as a way for entrepreneurs to accomplish the same end — a product — without giving up control of their companies in the process.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Popular Media is a hosted, web-based technology platform that enables customers to quickly create, optimize, and scale viral marketing programs - and it seems to work pretty well.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Unfortunately, the web is ripe with sites that offer social implementations that miss the mark. You can go to any number of sites across the web that only offer Facebook Connect for social login. (My Web Video Roundup. Dev & Design Highlights. By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Although it may or may not be in written form, it is reasonably common lore at Stanford that Terman was spider in the web, so to speak, that really set the wheels in motion for both Stanford’s place in “the valley&# as well as the valley’s place as a home to entrepreneurship.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Ann Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. Most of the scripts that run the spreadsheets are “public,” meaning you can access them from the Tools + Script Gallery menu (this also means they were reviewed and approved by Google Spreadsheets team). More Stories in Apps & Software. Design Lists.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects. But, over time, I noticed that the productivity losses that result from working too many extra hours start taking a bigger toll faster than most software managers realize. In terms of knowledge workers, a programmer produces more good code and fewer bugs when well-rested.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

As our digital agency focuses on search engine marketing the name fit perfectly in reference to the ‘web’, ‘spiders’ used to crawl web sites and the historic naming of an early search engine. I was a developer so I could write code, but not blog posts. Thanks to Mathew Porter, Kumo ! #2- 2- One Word.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. Some us have evolved past the visual designers.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2013

While so many landing page optimization efforts go toward better structure , copy , design or call to action - it’s often the missing scent that’s the culprit. Same girl, same design, same call to action look, same copy. Ad design (or email design etc) needs to match landing page design. They match!

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content. Deliverables.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

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. Arin Fishkin did all the original graphic design. How did the site come about?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems. That's 100% designed for your online business. Like this show? So intimate.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

If you are a totally new site with zero web presence what can you do to even get people there? Another way is get behind the power blogs such as mashable, techcrunch and get them to write a review or do an interview for your solution. After submitting the site design to website design galleries it’s really taken off.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Facebook Timeline: 10 Stunning Designs [PICS]. For example, a lot of press releases and pitches that I receive around key holidays try to make the enclosed news sound more relevant due to the upcoming holiday. Web Video Roundup. Dev & Design Highlights. Design Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

A Pillar Effect usually includes an initial rush of audience, followed by a long term stable stream of traffic, usually driven by search results, but also from all the different places online that link to it (called referral traffic in your web stats). Due to this, attention deficit sets in, so you need to do more to gain attention.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them. Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves. Who knows.

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designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

Home Gallery Articles Accessibility Business Critique CSS Freebies Graphics HTML Inspiration Interviews JavaScript Layouts Navigation PHP Reviews Software Typography Web Standards Deals Submit Submit a Design Design Dilemma Why get an account? It is carefully curated and edited by Josh Johnson and David Appleyard.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Our startup made software for making online stores. When we startedit, there wasnt any; the few sites you could order from werehand-made at great expense by web consultants. We knew that ifonline shopping ever took off, these sites would have to be generatedby software, so we wrote some. Pretty straightforward.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

Lastly, here is a Google Bundle for the list.  Full disclosure: I included this blog in the bundle which you can feel free to delete.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

So when I launched Bidsketch — a SaaS based proposal application for designers — offering a free plan was a no-brainer in my book. Pluggio is a Freemium Twitter web app created by Justin Vincent. About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Some businesses approach companies on the “dark web” to click on ads on their website. Wired refers to these as “hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software.” page speed , web design), so a sudden jump doesn’t guarantee foul play.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. I talked about some of the decks I had made, the cards I was playing, and it was me geeking out in a web-based format. I changed the design a few times. It’s very simple.

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