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MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

October 28th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? Hot off the press, hear the hosts of the Startup Success Podcast interview Mike Taber and I about the Micropreneur Academy. You can download the MP3 here. P.S. I did a written interview a few weeks ago for LocationIndependent.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? That is- if its in production, its “dead&#. When a commentator says Technology A is dead, they generally just mean its not an Apple or Google product.

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Software By Rob

JULY 31, 2009

July 31st, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? “The Office&# ERP Parody – An exceptional parody of the British version of The Office. For a while I was trying to figure out if some of the actors were from the original series. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc., the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. What’s the customer acquisition cost? It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup is Really Like, and more… → My Report on StackOverflow DevDays Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. October 22nd, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? at 5:05 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. In the U.S. Unlike the U.S.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you can write, write articles or blog If you code, become a high profile contributor to open source projects If you enjoy speaking, start speaking at user groups Anything relevant that you can do in public will increase the chance that someone will come to you looking for development work.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Here are some example metrics that are important at this overall level: CAC – total cost to acquire a customer (see previous blog post Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition to understand why this is so important.) This is applicable to other subscription businesses such as Open Source.) All rights reserved.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

You could say that 2009-2020 were Bitcoin’s shadow years, just as 1970-1990 was that era for email. RSK is the first open-source smart contract solution to have been built on Bitcoin’s network, and the platform has also rolled out powerful interoperability capabilities. Bitcoin occupies a similar space.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Pricey, but based on my hourly rate it’s cheaper than the open source solution I used previously when you factor in upgrades, crashes, and manual workarounds for missing functionality.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’m not saying don’t leverage open-source or established platforms. He’s been an essential consigliere who has helped me navigate acquisitions, sales, investors, and all sorts of corporate governance issues. This is a must if you want to build sustainable competitive advantage. I am saying don’t outsource your code).

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. on 01.01.09 at 6:21 pm [.] at 10:21 pm [.]

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. There’s YouTube , of course — well established in its own right, it rewrote the book on how an acquisition can be run delicately, as a company within a company.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products? There was something very right about Zed Shaw’s rant regarding open source licenses. How To Get There. How To Get There.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

September 22nd, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? But once you find them, provide your product with no hassles at a price where you make a healthy profit and you’re set. Do that, and your marketing plan won’t need luck. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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