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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. It all started in Dubai.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! Another interesting factor is building websites professionally also allows us to become more skillful with web development.

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16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name

mashable.com

Wordoid , NameVine and Lean Domain Search generate new words by appending their own prefixes and suffixes to your root, though I’ve found many of these results are not very good. Programming and Web Development Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Movie Lists.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

I personally think that the opinion about PHP in the web-developer community is way too negative. Im happy PHP existed 10 years ago, I think it got a lot of people interested in web development when the alternatives were monsters like ASP and JSP. Python is good for system administration, PHP is great for Web development.

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

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Seed Startups.