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Disturbing

Austin Startup

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. Just realize that if you are going to play the tech startup game in any way other than as a tourist, dare I say you need “to be disturbed.” (Yes,

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Name A Startup

ultralightstartups.com

Our Technology Platform. Finding a Technical Co-Founder. Bootstrapping. Engage an IP lawyer for more thorough analysis). Send at least 2 names into trademark legal review to ensure the names are own-able in your marketplace. Ultra Light Startups®. What is an Ultra Light Startup? Who We Are. How To Get In For Free.

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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. You want to sneak in some tech support emails during the day, so you use a cocktail of Anonymizer plus GMail-over-SSL to confound the network admin. This is not a bad thing. Slow growth maximizes your chance for success.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

  However, I assume that the proposed business solves a real problem that people are willing to pay for and that it may be lest costly, more efficient, and IP-protected. [5] Bootstrapping. Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. October 2010. September 2010.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to the Smart Bear Live producer, Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com , to schedule a recording with Jason. There’s just stuff, and they’re not technical.

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

techblog.netflix.com

If an instance dies for any reason, the ASG automatically creates a replacement instance and the Netflix tooling manages bootstrap replacement of that node in the Cassandra cluster. This could be due to a random fluctuation in the test, which we only ran once, variations in the detailed specification of the m1.xl Official Netflix Blog.

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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. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. The client always reviews the documentation and it’s much cheaper for him to make changes – to the documentation, not the code.

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