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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Read Business Model Generation pages 1-72, and The Four Steps to the Epiphany Chapter 3. Step 1: Set Up Team Logistics.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture. Playing it safe.

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Transcript of How to Successfully Run a Business as a WordPress Consultant

Duct Tape Marketing

In your view, is WordPress still undeniably the best tool or are some people and frameworks catching up to the point where it might actually be something to keep tabs on? John Jantsch: Is that Ruby? Troy Dean: No, it’s not Ruby. It’s certainly the majority player. Tell me what you’re actually trying to achieve.”

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million

Altgate

Simple, they make killer products, they are a cash machine, it’s an attractive business model and they’re visionaries. 37signals also has a great business model. They’re considered the “gold standard&# for the freemium model where you give away basic service and charge for enhanced features.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Disclaimer: my company creates websites, iPhone/iPad apps and other software, and we provide requirements gathering/business analysis services to all of our clients, for free.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Ruby Toolbox. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Rails (Ruby). Zend Framework (PHP). Mockingbird.