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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup

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» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Non-engineers are not “designers” by default. I’m not trying to become a developer. The 90/10 rule.

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6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup « WePay.com

blog.wepay.com

» 6 Things a Non-Engineer Should Know Before Founding a Web Startup By Rich Aberman Despite the obvious look of shock and panic on the faces of my WePay teammates, I recently committed my first lines of production code. Non-engineers are not “designers” by default. I’m not trying to become a developer. The 90/10 rule.

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A tour of my Wordpress plugins

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Automatically caches plain-HTML versions of your pages. It's most important for new readers who haven't seen old posts — especially anything older than the 10-15 posts displayed by your RSS reader when you first subscribe. Automatically create a "robots" meta-tag for search engines. Secure WordPress. WP Super Cache.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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It was easier for me, I’ve always been a geek, as a kid I was coding in BASIC, and I wrote the html for my very first business’s website by hand. But you’ll quickly learn that all developers are not the same, and there’s a range of skills: front-end, back-end, UI, UX, design, etc. Becoming familiar with them all will be time well-spent.

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How and Why I Still Use Delicious

Duct Tape Marketing

I still use Delicious every day to bookmark and automatically publish content to the web via RSS and I think you should too. Even the simple act of blogging requires the ability to find and sort various sources and few things are handier than a site like Delicious that is both discovery engine and reservoir of other people’s discoveries.

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