crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Your consultant, in turn, will walk the fine line of giving you the answer you want to hear while raising the scope and cost of the project, possibly even creating milestones along the way, ensuring an ongoing, gainful relationship. The cost of adding too much “scalability” up front is a more complex product, harder to test and maintain.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. PHP is insecure? These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Ruby on Rails doesnt scale?

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. This means considering what the opportunity cost for working on a high risk venture is relative to other things they can spend their time on. If they own a Mac Book Pro that may cost around $1,800 bucks (new).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2013

Although, it costs $249, it sells like there is no tomorrow. PHP and jQuery. PHP an scripting language and jQuery and JavaScript library. PHP: jQuery: A-Z Lyrics and Metro Lyrics. PHP: jQuery: A-Z Lyrics and Metro Lyrics. Both of these sites are lyrics search engines. No wonder it looks so good.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Digital marketing has been gathering a high attention because of the numerous benefits it provides as evaluated to the cost that is invested in it. If we are involved in the business of digital marketing and Search Engine Optimization we will get to know its importance. Best tips in digital marketing to follow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh). I mean, have you seen other people? Heres my take.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. PHP-FPM (a patch for php4/5 to greatly improve FastCGI SAPI usage). cakePHP (PHP). Drupal (PHP). Kohana (PHP). Zend Framework (PHP). WordPress (PHP). Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

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. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark. Simple editing. Rails deployment made easy AppHarbor – Heroku for.net jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 15, 2013

the most online-visible person at WP Engine. I was about to give a night-time talk about making websites fast at a local Austin PHP users group; did anyone at the office want to come? But wait, doesn’t that mean a pay raise to cover cost-of-living? I’ll buy dinner after? They didn’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This approach is a the heart of breaking down the "time/quality/cost pick two" paradox , because these small investments cause the team to go faster over time. Its why, at my previous job, we were able to get a new engineer completely productive on their first day. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

OtterLogic OtterLogic is a marketplace for less than truckload freight shipments that increases profits for carriers while lowering costs for shippers. The Clubhouse is Now On-Demand | Partake. Our ideal candidate is hands on, passionate, persistent, creative, and a DOer.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. No revenues, no costs. Step #2: Pitch investors. What ever happened to “build it”? Undoubtedly the code sucked, but at least he got something up and running.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

There are software applications, or workflow engines, that have been created to manage business processes. Because many existing workflow engines are hard to use, and it's easier for a developer to hack something together themselves. None of that counts for anything of course if the backend workflow engine isn't up to scratch.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. Cost The most talented technical candidates do demand higher hourly rates, but as indicated already, their expertise reduces risk and the number of required project hours.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 17, 2015

Our old frequentist methods can be computed in microseconds using PHP, while our new Bayesian methods take minutes on a 64 core compute cluster. In those cases, Frequentist is easier to use and they might as well cut down on mental cost of trying to figure out priors and the such.”. The second reason is computationa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Is It Sticky?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Meanwhile, we were building our app in PHP, using a generic DB driver and mysql, "for the time being." It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 31, 2011

Front page search engine optimization. By the way if you need someone to do these changes for you, I can personally recommend Neerav our popular PHP freelancer. Article page search engine optimization. Off-page search engine optimization. Are there any reported errors (under “Diagnostics / Crawl Errors”)?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process. When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day. But if it slipped to the third day, I started to worry.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

PHP Tutorials. Your product must solve an actual need, have a profitable market size, differentiate itself from the competition, generate sufficient interest from your target market, be cost-effective to produce in a timely manner, and have a clear marketing path. Research the cost of advertising your product. User Interface.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

model of offering a more valuable product at no cost to the user (think Mint.Com). Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Build a team – we have plans to hire at a minimum 2 more engineers once funded with many more to follow and you will be hand selecting your team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

I was told they werent sure, because all of their engineers were currently busy refactoring. The engineering team has decided its reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it up to modern standards, including unit tests, getting started with continuous integration , and a new MVC architecture.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 27, 2010

Everlater is built on Ruby on Rails , postgreSQL and is hosted on Engine Yard using a passenger/nginx combination. In the last post, titled Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers , I foreshadowed some of the tools that Nate and Natty chose to build Everlater. Now that you know how they got started, here’s what they ended up choosing.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

One of the biggest lessons I learned is when going into business that requires heavy technical work, such as the e-commerce website (programmed in PhP) we ran, it is better to find a programmer that will work with you on a profit sharing basis rather than payment per task. Not to mention an unhappy customer. This was a huge risk.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

One of the many appealing factors that drew me towards internet marketing is the low cost to begin. Fortunately for me, I come from a programming background so I was not afraid to get my hands dirty and delve into some php and css coding to make my theme look how I wanted it to look (I enjoyed tapping into my inner-geek!).

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Letting the system choose the output at the same URL can ban your website from search engines. Oddly enough, this doesn’t mean removing pages.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

Responsive mobile-friendly design, with a double-opt-in MailChimp email signup form, coded in HTML/CSS/Jquery/php, passes all w3 validation checks,’ etc.”. Cale Dansbee, president and principal security engineer for Topstone, agrees. “Don’t say ‘I need a website built,’” says Mike Scanlin, CEO of Born To Sell.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you’re a business major – go check out the Engineering Society’s monthly meeting. One’s a PM and the other’s an engineer. If so, shoot me an intro email at ryoma8ito@gmail.com A little about me: - Degree in computer engineering w/ management science option - Built several web 2.0

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. These cost-per-install ads are a reasonable way to jumpstart traffic to a new app, which is what theyve been used for so far.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. This scheme maintains a lookup table somewhere in the cluster, that simply keeps track of which data is stored on which shard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. When the goals not clear, I think you wind up with situations that are essentially value-destroying, where free users are actually driving up costs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

The first event is January 21, and is being put on by Dealmaker Media as part of their Strategy Series events: In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy. There are no canned presentations, so you can come set the agenda. The format is Q&A around a conference table with four "speakers" and a moderator.

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