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Twice in a Lifetime

Austin Startup

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. Technology revolutions take a while to fully mature.

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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” The next post describes what I have learned and observed in the following years about balancing my entrepreneurial drive with building a healthy relationship with my wife and kids.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

blog.teamtreehouse.com

RSS. Ben Gremillion started playing with pixels in the mid-1980s and building websites circa 1997. Treehouse is the best way to learn technology skills that can change your life. Our mission is to bring affordable Technology education to people everywhere, in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful. The Myspace traffic numbers slipped slightly before they cleaned it up, but after the June 2008 redesign it was freefall. Ive read interviews with people at Zappos before talking about how they purposely keep the site looking like crap. (To Its the ultimate challenge.)

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