Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). My path to lean startups began with Kent Beck and extreme programming. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

A name can be a prison,” says Michael Martine, the blogging and SEO expert behind Remarkablogger. Plus, since spammers rely heavily on popular keywords, names generated solely with SEO in mind can seem spammy. Just don’t forsake that natural ability because you’re so focused on domain names, SEO and empty vessels. Is It Sticky?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2010

In the continuation of the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater , I asked them a few questions about which web sites, books, and blogs they consumed at the beginning of their journey when they knew nothing about programming. Tags: Programming everlater. What have you read lately?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Of course, as an open source project when you start mixing all these elements together from different sources, you have possible compatibility issues, you have security issues, you’ve got ease of use, who can you trust, who do you go for support, all that kind of stuff. Everything from strategy design, SEO, and whatnot.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It's a very well managed company with superbly talented employees with programming skills, and easily understood how to implement all our requirement, quickly and on our budget. SEO Specialist at Empirecovers.com (J. I'm really fortunate that I'd found a wonderful development outsource partner in them.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

OnStartups Created by the same folks who run the popular programming Q&A site StackOverflow , this site is a perfect place to crowdsource all of your small business questions. These nine websites will help you track down the appropriate entrepreneurs.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Reddit - Specifically the programming, business and startup sub-redits. Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Slashdot - Not as vibrant as it once was, but still a large tech community. are full of smart tech people).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Does It Boost Your SEO? Vidhatanand Sharma is an Open Source evangelist and has keen interests in personalized experience on the web. Need more proof of Drupal’s security? Well then add NASA , CERN , and London Government in the list too. These examples should be reason enough for you to trust Drupal for its security.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The website was built on OS Commerce , with open source shopping cart ZenCart in the back-end, which made it easier for us non-tech literate folks to manage simple functions of the website. Although these programs kill you with transaction fees, it is foolish to ignore them because of their popular and wide-spread usage.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Language doesnt matter Complex web applications can be built in just about any programming language, and its not really the language that is so important as the frameworks that are available. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. framework was built.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I think you’re giving generally good advice but there are other factors like SEO value of your name/domain, memorability, simplicity, etc. Programming. For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework. Just pick two good words and put them together, right? Brian Burridge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Im on the team that released one of the Taxi apps, and we agree that the "SEO" and placement on the App Store can sometimes leave users with insufficient or inaccurate information to make decisions. Hey Eric, very interesting post.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Check out services like WooCommerce , Magento , and Open Cart. What : To generate a lead exchange program. Social Media. Example #2.

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www.readwriteweb.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can certainly find open-source alternatives for less, but while other tools can challenge BaseCamps functionality, they cant touch its UI. Pricing starts at $20 a month, with a 45-day free trial. Youll cover your monthly costs in support savings in your first week. Winner: PayPal.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Thinking of applying to one (or all) of the summer accelerator/incubator/angel/mentoring programs like TechStars , Joystick Labs , or any of those found on this comprehensive list ? That’s one of the things we might develop during the summer program. We collectively get thousands of submissions, but only 1% are selected.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

Best Buy uses RDFa and has shown a 30% increase in their SEO efforts. Huge media players such as New York Times and Thompson Reuters/Open Calais publish Linked Data. The Semantic Web is already changing the way we search, do SEO, find information, integrate data and create web applications.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Cons – Requires more knowledge about decisioning agents then most programs have. Overall – Conductrics is a great tool for programs that really want to tackle adaptive learning personalization or want a lot of flexibility when it comes to interactions. Piwik is the open source alternative to Google Analytics.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

At Left of the Dot Media (www.LeftoftheDot.com), we’re building businesses using generic domain names and what we’ve found is that doors open faster for partnerships, you get intrinsic trust from your potential customers, you get a distinct SEO boost, and higher click-thru rates on your paid search. Open Source Lists.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Unify is published under a dual open source license (MIT and Apache version 2.0) Unify Project The Unify Project is a set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create smartphone apps using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter and Facebook for recent news and updates.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Google SEO went into free fall from first week of April until middle of May for refinements. Lame SEO people called it Penguin to justify to clients why SEO had fallen. SEO, as relevant as MySpace and Google Buzz in the 2nd decade of the 21st Century mobile marketing era. Register here. Print Story. Email Story.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Ive always wondered how to go about outsourcing programming, as whilst I understand and have done programming successfully in the past - I absolutely hate it! Another way to do it is to teach yourself programming and build it yourself. You sound like a great client to deal with for a programming company. Bless you, chile!

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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