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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. work is mostly drupal, wordpress, seo and php/lamp. To start off you should focus on working with a company that offers you direct access to engineers and is willing to work as an extended branch for your team. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only!

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

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. 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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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

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. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Is It Sticky?

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. In other words, not very much.

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

blog.expensify.com

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

For example, pre-select the user’s country based on their IP address. It should be possible to switch the formatting based on location, either by prompting for location or by IP lookup. From what I have seen in conferences where Amazon engineers gave talks, they seriously test *everything* on their UX/UI. Pixel Productions Inc.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

Theres an engineer currently looking at it, hopefully it (along with the email mock-up) should be back online within the hour. I think, if you can swing it, the first round of the core technology / IP should be developed by the founders. The engineers are currently working on it. Once wed got a tight mock-up wed won the battle.

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