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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

I’ve never made software before or even a website. He had a little local web development agency which is making websites for random people. The primary reason I have it so good is because I made a really extraordinary hire back in 2010 right after we started getting traction. Do we lock you down this year?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. I’ve worked with dozens of startups and it only works that way for a small fraction of cases.

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

blog.expensify.com

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? So clueless. oz burger).

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

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. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job.

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