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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Useful comparison of Amazon vs. Rackspace clouds & why Mixpanel is moving to EC2 – [link]. 10 Design Lessons From HTML Email Templates That Actually Sell – [link]. 10 Design Lessons From HTML Email Templates That Actually Sell – [link]. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link].

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Jackie: I would recommend instead Amazons EC2 and S3 platforms. That said, I dont think EC2 is reliable enough to depend upon, and the entire reputation of a startup can hinge on that. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. You then can ask EC2 to start instances with your configuration on the fly. EC2 is a powerful service, but it is still evolving. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Startups!!!

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. It only needs to include two things: a working, monitored email address and a PGP key. It’ll email you if something is out of date. You use bcrypt?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Wow, it looks like every.NET developer was sent a mass email saying to complain about the original post! Two startups I have worked for were about *extending* messaging security, not reinventing email. I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. Guess what?

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.