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Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. Also, engineering, we have Pin Chen, our CTO is in place and he basically runs the whole engineering team so really I just talk to him and make sure that they’re working on stuff that’s a good idea. There’s another track for our consultant partners.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Although this was annoying for sysadmins, security consultants, and language purists (and for those who had proprietary modules that couldnt be bundled), it was a huge boon for developers.

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