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DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. Social networking is peaking.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. That died with waterfall software development. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? Do so at your peril.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart web developers. I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0,

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DECEMBER 26, 2010

You will be able to say why you’ve chosen to be strong in certain areas – these being the ones you believe your target customers care about the most – and how you will develop other features to match competition in the future. And showing some areas for improvement is also a great way to get a two-way dialog going with your investor.

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Hockey Stick Differentiation AJAX Vertical 313

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It required content sites to develop totally new content. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. Or would it?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

What was important about the Web is that it made it significantly easier for people to develop content that could be consumed by other people given the HTML mark-up language and it was open so anybody was free to create websites that others could discover and consume. My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999.

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