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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. One that is powered by three drivers, each of which is a part of a major trend: The use of platforms enabled by open source and free software. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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15 steps to launch your own tech startup: Part 2

The Next Web

The main hub for starting a tech business is currently San Francisco. Jason Evanish wrote a great post about 25 Things I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco. If you are a first-time entrepreneur, San Francisco is most likely not the best city for you to start your company. Dominate the world. ”.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Massive proprietary databases?

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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