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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. That’s only important because, as part of the engineering degree there, you have to complete six four-month internships over your course,” Livingston tells TNW in an interview. By day I did my job, but at night I wrote a piece of software to automate my job,” he recalls. “At

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Its one of the most effective paradigms for software devlopment in history.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.