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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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View Comments Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO] View Comments Mashable Weekend Recap: 19 Stories You Might Have Missed View Comments Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich View Comments PHP, MySQL & AJAX Developer at Comentum Corp. Visit [link] / for more information.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? Massive proprietary databases? I dont think so. Can the company dig into its tools when they fail and fix them?

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We’re all coders

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And no, I haven’t gone out and learned PHP or Ruby or the latest groovy language. It is totally open source and varies in its use dependent on many things including the geography in which it is used. My answer used to be something like: our job as an entrepreneurs is to organise the factors of production, not be them.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with. We tried to learn how to create a schema, or really anything at all, and mostly failed.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

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It's a unique approach, and one we'd love to discuss with entrepreneurs and their investment sources. Club Intimate Are there any super angels in Australia? 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. Visit [link] / for more information. WizkidLabs This could signal the start of a bubble.

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. As I make more, youll find them (with source) at my Greasemonkey Compiler page. 2comments: Matthew Quinlan said. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

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Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.