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Tips On Choosing A Control Panel For Your Web Hosting Environment

YoungUpstarts

by Greg Rockwood, community and PR manager at Softsys Hosting. Does it support your preferred database server (MySQL, SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012, etc.)? Does it support your preferred mail server (SmarterMail, MailEnable, etc) with all features like creating users, forwarder setup, email alias, anti-spam features, etc.? .

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

On a warm day in early June I cold emailed the owner through the website contact form. The site was once great; marketed by a high-end NYC PR firm. It took three months emails before we settled on the final terms. During the trial period a user received exactly zero emails.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture

Occam's Razor

While these metrics sound good, and yes they do get a bunch of press coverage (they have good PR Agents), they are rarely deeply relevant and even more rarely yield valuable insights into business performance. SQL and web analytics is your wheel house." Time on Site! For all such use cases… Fine, automate their dashboard.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Feel free to include your URL and email for anyone to contact you.

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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.