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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

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As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. ” By 2005, however, “Free, open source infrastructure [was] the norm,” with the ability to “get it anytime and anywhere.” While it seems quaint now, it used to be expensive to build an app and start a company around it.

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How To Predict The Future

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We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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When a potential customer visits a website and then leaves without making a purchase, companies can ‘follow’ them on the Internet,” says Melissa Chelist, owner of Storkgifts , an online children’s store. According to Think Mobile with Google : 81% of smartphone users access the Internet on their mobile devices.

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LinkedIn Explores What It Takes To Be an Entrepreneur [INFOGRAPHIC]

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INFOGRAPHIC] How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets [INFOGRAPHIC] Global Internet Traffic Expected to Quadruple by 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Advertising on Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC] What Makes the Modern Media Agency [INFOGRAPHIC] How Does the iPad 2 Compare to the Tablet Competition?

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

I was more open to it becoming a real company, but I never really expected it to be a real company from the beginning. We were on an immersion trip to Silicon Valley, and we said, “Let’s find a way to leverage [a previous open source project],” and we decided to build something around that.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

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Fake Ad Rips Internet Explorer 9 in Most Devastating Way Possible [VIDEO]. Facebook Is Like Bananas and Boxes, Says the Internet. Open Source Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2012 Mashable, Inc. Trending Stories. Like Tweet.

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