www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. What It Takes To Recruit A Technical Co-Founder. Particularly if she is at what is essentially a co-founder speed dating event.

Cofounder 40

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Of course CapEx has been transformed into OpEx via changes in the tech infrastructure layer (open source, virtualization & cloud computing, offshoring, etc.). That’s no secret.

Seed Stage 175

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

Cost 255

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor. This social network for entrepreneurs can help you answer your questions in a handful of different ways. Thankfully responses aren’t restricted with a character limit.

Entrepreneur 94

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

CTO Hire 73

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform.

LLC 75

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Groupon Adds Self-Serve Deal Platform.

LLC 75

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Go for open source tools. One of the ways of doing that is by using the open source tools for the job. Most of the open source tools are available for free and have a good community support. The open source tools will save you lots of money which can be used in other jobs like marketing.

Open Source 74

Open Source Startup Cofounder Analytics 74

Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

While it is around 6 months old now, and still in beta, there has been a lot of noise about Social Networking Startup Ello. A decade or more deep into this social connection thing people are starting to realise, that corporations like Facebook and Twitter, are well, just corporations. And rightly so. Nothing new there.

Social Network 83

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present. View More » Social Good Google Gives $250,000 to Tech Educati. 5 Creative Social Good Campaigns for. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N. Kim Kardashian Tops Bing’s Most Pop. Verizon Wireless Set to Launch 4G Net. Bush Talks "the Facebook" a.

Software Developers 79

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

38 New Social Media Resources You May. Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

Coder 60

Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

3) Check the social network username site www.knowem.com to see who else is using something similar. I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. I have a couple of points and resources to add. And Good luck!

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This advice is from a 2008 post by Jason Calacanis (hat tip Founders Notebook ): 4. Anyone can say we’re going to add: a mobile version, collaborative filtering, an advertising network, visualizations, a marketplace, a browser plugin, a browser and a social network to their product.

Open Source 60

Open Source Social Network Advertising Founder 60

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

The era of cheap cloud computing plus open-source software plus digital natives unleashed upon society is creating some truly amazing products that will challenge the way we do business and the way we live our lives. So resume + directionally-correct social graph = goldmine for recruiting, networking and marketing.

Churn Rate 309

Churn Rate IPO Open Source PR 309

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As promised, open source social network and Facebook alternative Diaspora released its source code yesterday. Being smaller has its challenges, however, argues Dan Neely, founder of the startup Networked Insights , a social media listening platform.

Startup 117

Startup Algorithm Agile Open Source 117

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Jeremy Goldman is the founder of Firebrand Group and the author of the book GoingSocial. Part of my job as a digital and social media strategist is following expert predictions, in order to better help my clients at Firebrand Group innovate. Handwritten notes, phone calls, handshakes. You must follow trend predictions.

Media 154

Media Social Media Cofounder Caching 154

Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. They have a willingness to ‘open source’. The free on line is the digital sampling of the event with the real connection….

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. I haven’t met a single founder has hasn’t raved about their experience working with Jon Callaghan, Phil Black or Tony Conrad.

Software Review 283

Software Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Southern California 283

The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Docracy – open source legal documents. f6s – listing of all accelerator programs (and lots of other info) and a social network for startups and angels. AngelList – social network and funding platform for startups and angels. TextIt – create SMS applications without programming (e.g.

Software Review 56

Software Review Founder Widget SMS 56

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

How we meet and network has dramatically changed. Sassani, the CEO and founder of ZOZI.com, shared a story that demonstrates the new model of networking, “One of my most recent hires was a new public relations person named Tian Lee. Set a networking goal (i.e. Many open source applications (i.e.

Networking 72

Networking Sweat Equity Social Media .Net 72

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. “Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&#

Equity 74

Equity Engineer Technical Review Social Media 74

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be There are so many trends, how can your logo stand apart?

Web 111

Web Design Social Media PHP 111

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Sign in All Social Media Tech & Gadgets Business & Marketing Video Mobile Dev & Design Media Social Good Startups Classifieds Mashable Infographics Prev Next How Are People Using Twitter? LinkedIn was curious, so the business social network decided to find out. Whom is he or she connected to?

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San Francisco New York City Social Media Entrepreneur 99

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

38 New Social Media Resources You May. Movies music myspace ONLINE VIDEO politics pop culture privacy Search small business social good social media social networking social networks software sports tech television trending tv twitter verizon video video games viral video web video Wordpress Yahoo youtube Join More Than 2.8

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