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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. One of the problems they run into is building a web site. and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site. .

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Why and When to Learn to Program

Spencer Fry

I'd put off the assignment to the last minute and focus my time and energy on areas I did well in: other subjects in school and founding a successful startup during my sophomore year of college. Whenever you're hanging around other startup people, "you should learn to program" is thrown around like it's the antidote to all your problems.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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Is the incompleteness of your application hiding behind the term.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

To me KissMetrics looks like another case of Simplicitrite (a new disease among developers / entrepreneurs). Why on earth would I use their product when I already use Google Analytics (99% of the web developers do too)? by Aymeric on April 28th, 2010 simplicity. Yes, KissMetrics what it does very well but it is not enough.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Given that startups depend on superstars to survive, why stick with PHP?

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