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The wood chips

Start Up Blog

In my previous blog entry I spoke about ‘leveraging the wood chips’ Which is an old business maxim on how whatever we do has some kind of externality, off cut or by product which can be leveraged (very often sold) in some way to invent a new revenue stream. LPG – LPG is synthesised by refining petroleum or wet natural gas.

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The wood chips

Start Up Blog

In my previous blog entry I spoke about ‘leveraging the wood chips’ Which is an old business maxim on how whatever we do has some kind of externality, off cut or by product which can be leveraged (very often sold) in some way to invent a new revenue stream. LPG – LPG is synthesised by refining petroleum or wet natural gas.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Sure you have Ruby, Python, many others, but PHP is winning because it’s so accessible to newbies, and it manipulates the server side continuously, allowing e-commerce, social, geolocation and other apps. Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. What is Drupal?

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

The Next Web

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP. Plus, by the time you’re ready to expand into a paid service, your business should have some revenue trickling in the front door to justify the upgrade.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million

Altgate

37signals has several other products, but Basecamp accounts for about 60% of their projected $8 million in 2008 revenue. On the financials alone, 37signals should be worth about $80 million (10X revenue). Microsoft will also have to commit to porting Ruby to.NET and supporting RoR and Get Real throughout the firm.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. Ruby on Rails. For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework. 27 Apr 10. Sören Meyer-Eppler. Ta-da List, to-do list manager. Get things done.

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Marketing Platform Independence

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Take Heroku , a fully-managed Ruby on Rails platform. But WordPress is different again because it's an ecosystem , meaning not just a single technology controlled by a single company but a guild of many thousands of consultants, products, companies, and power users, all of whom depend on each other for revenue, attention, and credibility.

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