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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

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. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.

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How Falling In Love With My Product Killed My Business

Software By Rob

The implementations were practically bullet-proof and hundreds of C++ programs relied on this library to handle their most basic functionality without having to reinvent the wheel. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. Their product love blinded them to the fundamental shift in the market: Java was free.

Java 66
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Totango Accelerates Revenues for Engine Yard Customers

Guy Nirpaz

The Totango team is excited to announce its participating in the Engine Yard’s add-ons program. Totango can accelerate revenues for new and existing applications by providing real time visibility into customer behavior and automating personalized sales and marketing campaigns based on these behaviors.

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AppDirect’s Developer Incubator aims to help engineers become entrepreneurs through apprenticeship

The Next Web

AppDirect , the cloud-based services marketplace company, has set up a Developer Incubator program in order to help it staff up, but also to give engineers an opportunity to get some entrepreneurial experience without risking their paycheck. The program is open to anyone, regardless of background and education. Open to any engineer.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

Now all you have to do is choose a programming language and build a MVP. With this in mind, choose a programming language that makes it easy to start publishing code. It’s also important that you try stick to programming language that run on UNIX. My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. Drupal’s weaknesses as a software language tool (push button programming, configuring, too easy, more IT than software dev) are actually its strengths. What is Drupal?

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

For the tech savvy this might include reading an intro book on programming. For the less tech savvy check for a summary and history of the programming language on Wikipedia. Don’t be too specific – you do not need to include the programming language, etc. at this stage. This is true in most, but not all cases.