mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Cons: People advertising services, looking for advice, seeking investment capital, and looking for cofounders are all dumping their comments into the same place, which can make it hard to browse. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP.

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LLC Social Media Startup Philadelphia 75

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! And I’ve promised to talk about what it takes to find cofounders. Run with it.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

As my friend once said, “I never hugged a co-worker until I worked at a startup.” Pick up a ruby book and learn some code. Take a sales training course. You don’t have to be a founder. You’re in school right? Most of you have at least six to eight months before you graduate. You don’t need an idea.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

September 27, 2010 | View Comments This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Advice: I wrote a gude to finding a technical co-founder.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

Next up: Joe Andrieu CEO/Founder, SwitchBook Chair, Project VRM Standards Committee Key questions - Will it accomplish what you need? Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times. Ruby on Rails as a platform? Completely agree.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. Was looking for something like this.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This post is by Scott Edward Walker , the firm's founder and CEO. It is here where my father began his 15-year journey from entry-level engineer at Western Union to founder and CEO of Walker Telecommunications Corporation , a NASDAQ-listed public company. If you like it, check out Scott's blog and tweets @ ScottEdWalker.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. WorkBar Boston - Flexible co-working space near South Station. Ruby specialists.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. sachinrekhi : "Visionary customers are as smart if not smarter then the founders" #leanstartup Theres no skipping the chasm. Traditional department labels just make it harder. You can register here.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Co-workers arent’ comfortable with commandeline/Tortoise. As a microISV with marketing and sales to deal with, it can be discouraging to compete against college students with unlimited time. #41 Enter VisualSVN.

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Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform. JoinSquare at Square, Inc.

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Web Design Social Media Software Review 111

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform. JoinSquare at Square, Inc.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Jeremy (co-owner of DotNetInvoice) is doing some final testing on our demo server and runs into a problem. But I lost 60 hours of development time and they lost a sale and a fan (I was going to rave about them on this blog). Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Considering that all the benchmarked websites gross $148+ million per year in online sales, it seems rather sloppy that only half of them have dedicated the resources to removing needless checkout friction by ensuring that they don’t ask for the same information more than once (across multiple pages). Ruby on Rails. Large view.

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Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. This is a smart guy with experience and a logical approach to such things, but the way he was initially trying to value his company was not only wrong, but the wrong way to think about the entire sale. To stoke an existing sales channel.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. We aim to sell through direct internet sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Having worked with dozens of founders over the past few months, I think I can safely say, without naming any names, that most of us are not too clear on what were talking about when it comes to markets. Founders are constantly being barraged by incoherent and contradictory advice. Is a market a set of paying customers? Remember Java?

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Ruby Lean 89

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Rails deployment made easy AppHarbor – Heroku for.net jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

I am a Ruby on Rails programmer and have written the first line of code for a few startups. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

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CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Ruby Toolbox. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. Rails (Ruby).

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