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More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo

David Teten

It was created before the Internet age to protect investors by promoting full disclosure of information. They hired the Sustainable Economies Law Center to write to the U.S. Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin and Eric Schell co-founded Indiegogo in 2008 to enable anybody with a great idea to make that idea happen.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them.

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Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti

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Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Hire a programmer. Advice: See this great article on how to hire a programmer. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.