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APRIL 18, 2012

If you look at the year-over-year trends from 2009-2011 for companies that have raised less than $10M: and another chart that is only startups with Seed or Series A according to development stage: To me this is a very interesting set of trends that I would not have guessed without seeing the data.

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JUNE 13, 2011

" From Groovy/Grails :: Ruby/Rails :: 2011 State of the framework : Rails and Grails are both excellent frameworks with their current releases. If you don't believe me, take a look at some interesting data on what programming languages TIOBE Programming Community Index for June 2011 are in use and the current trends.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

I know a lot more about CTOs specifically CTO Salary and Equity Trends 2009-2011 , Visualization of Startup CTO Equity and Salary Data , Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data , but I've previously written about the issues with Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread.

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JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. Instead, I want to look at how they've integrated themselves with Facebook and particularly how they engage users to help viral spread.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking.

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