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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. When we launched Traindom, we knew nothing about lean startup methodology or customer development. I was 25 years old.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name

mashable.com

16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name. You can read his thoughts on startup marketing at www.cezary.co. This article is the second in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Wednesday, we discussed why your startup’s name matters , and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing and buying domains.

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

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. 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. Given that startups depend on superstars to survive, why stick with PHP?

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Startup Resources

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Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.