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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

HIRE A PROGRAMMER - About 3 months after I left my job we finally decided we needed to do something until we could find a co-founder so we hired a programmer to do some HTML mockups. I pick my cofounder's brain almost daily about the inner workings of our product, so that I can be better informed about the tech side of things.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

With all these new tasks, there’s no way you can also manage the projects and client relationships and internal product development, so you’ll need a project manager or a sales person or an office manager or some kind of help, and all of those come out of your profits. None of these new tasks are fun or creative.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Our new company is actually two products and is a very unique OpenSource development and iphone/android development ticket service. His entire product is just an HTML front-end to libpurple, which is 99% of his codebase. Will it kill these SV types to admit building HTML front-ends to open source products?

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html. Keep HTML HTML and Javascript Javascript. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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