Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 11, 2009 CPI > CPC Google revolutionized advertising by popularizing pay-per-click. 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. The difference is intent: when youre searching for a specific topic, ads have a chance to fulfill your interest in that topic.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 14, 2009

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « What Entrepreneurs and Angels Want To Know. | Main. | Now Is The Time for Entrepreneurs » January 14, 2009. Two Rules: No Ask, No Get. and. If Not Now, When? I'm reminded this morning about these two simple "rules" and how important they can be to entrepreneurs.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 12, 2009

 As I look around post-holiday season, I am seeing more and more regular, non-technical friends and family get connected on their mobile devices.  What does that mean? A great example is that of my father-in-law who got rid of his old Motorola Startac and exchanged it for an iPhone.  Yes, he got an iPhone, and then days later I got a message to get connected to him on Facebook.  Ever since, he has been using the phone to take pictures nonstop, send emails and SMS messages

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Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

When building your next web app, you can create value by improving existing web dev tools or by making a compelling app. If you’re interested in making a great app, it’s best to use the best of existing tools and let others improve them. Most web pages served today are produced by one of these platforms: Static HTML (brochure-style sites). C or C++ (search engines mostly, some backends).

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 14, 2009

I just read a blog post about a developer with a #1 iPhone app that quit his day job. The “indie developer” market seems alive and well (and not just for iPhone apps). If you have talent and an SDK, you can give it a shot. If you’re lucky, you can make a good living. Software applications have become an expressive art like novels, paintings, music, and screen plays.

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Altgate

JANUARY 12, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Quote Of The Day Running & Reading → Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account Posted on January 12, 2009 by fnazeeri The intertubes have been full of debate about this article from The Times.  The gist of the story is that is that the authors "reveal" that the internet uses electricity.  Specifically they call out Google for emitting 7 grams of carb

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Hacking Startups

JANUARY 16, 2009

'When building your next web app, you can create value by improving existing web dev tools or by making a compelling app. If you’re interested in making a great app, it’s best to use the best of existing tools and let others improve them. Most web pages served today are produced by one of these platforms: Static HTML (brochure-style sites).

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2009

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Altgate

JANUARY 13, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Why I Canceled My CO2stats Account Help Ban Non-Competes In Massachusetts → Running & Reading Posted on January 13, 2009 by fnazeeri Just saw this over on Brad Feld’s blog and had to repost. It’s a video mashup of Will Smith talking about the “keys to success in life&# : running and reading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds.

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Altgate

JANUARY 16, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Help Ban Non-Competes In Massachusetts Fidelity Center For Applied Technology → So Bad It’s Good Posted on January 16, 2009 by fnazeeri I had one of those you-couldn’t-make-this-up-if-you-wanted-to moments earlier today when I saw this product.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2009

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Altgate

JANUARY 14, 2009

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