Remove Business Model Remove Customer Development Remove Java Remove Technology
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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Updated Business tools for Startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Ad Serving Technology. Codeacademy.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. As one engineer recently told me, “Once we had money in the bank and were near-profitable, I think we would have been well-served by increased up-front product and technology planning.