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Disturbing

Austin Startup

John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software. The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance.

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6 critical tips for launching a startup while holding a day job | VentureBeat

venturebeat.com

In fact, any bootstrapped company should be aiming for slow, consistent growth rather than explosive growth. Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. You don’t need funding.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. If you don’t know how to code in C# then it is probably easier and faster to use Dreamweaver , Frontpage or the freeware KompoZer. Secondly you need some software to create flow charts in.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

The Netflix cloud systems group recently created a Cloud Performance Team to focus on characterizing the performance of components such as Cassandra, and helping other teams make their code and AWS usage more efficient to reduce latency for customers and costs for Netflix. This team is currently looking for an additional engineer.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all!