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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

YoungUpstarts

If you think of your company as a ship, the culture is the engine. Without metrics, planning, and long-term thinking, how do you know that you’re going fast enough? Zvi frequently participates in thought leadership panels at Tech Cocktail, WordPress DC, DC PHP, and DCRUG events.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. Step #2: Pitch investors. What ever happened to “build it”?

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

The business plan was starting to look great and all the idea kinks were worked out. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). We plan to raise $500,000 in seed funding by January and could do so much sooner depending on how quickly the chosen candidate can work. .

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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." Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. Looking back, that was a special moment.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. They just havd faith in me. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. I am chugging along.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

PHP Tutorials. Businesses. Business Articles. General Business. Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Graphic Design Theory. Photoshop Tutorials.