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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

Trello – Planning for business development, design, some strategy work. Amazon EC2 – Computing, server management, hosting. Paper Trail – Log acquisition, merging from multiple servers, and analysis. Quickbooks Online – Accounting. Recurly – Recurring billing from within our application.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Organically, graphic design competitions were happening with no money involved. Soon people from like coffeeshops and non-tech businesses were finding their way to his SitePoint site to post design contests. The design contests were buried in the forums so Mickiewicz knows that he was onto something. Some vendors go bankrupt.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. Knewton's Online Marketing Director is the key partner to the VP, Online Marketing and is responsible for helping the team drive customer acquisition and revenue growth through SEM (paid search), SEO, Affiliate Marketing, and Email.

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Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup.

Software By Rob

Making Open Source Convenient: JumpBox – A startup focused on making it dead-simple to get started with open source applications, they create virtual machines completely pre-configured to just start and go (including versions that runs on Amazon EC2). Coolest Business Card Ever – How am I not stealing this design right now?

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The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared

www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

The best-known examples in the market today probably are the  Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)  and  OpenStack Nova. The best-known example of SDN probably is  Nicira , not in the least because of their $1 billion acquisition by VMWare. When people talk about â??cloudâ?? they often refer to server virtualization. It shouldnâ??t

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.