mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Stage 1: Idea.

Startup 79

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. By day I did my job, but at night I wrote a piece of software to automate my job,” he recalls. “At At the end of my four-month term, they brought me on part-time to run a team that built out a system around the software I’d developed at night.”.

Entrepreneur 167

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

1 ] In a sense theres just one mistake that kills startups: not makingsomething users want. Standards arehigher; people are more sympathetic to what youre doing; the kindof people you want to hire want to live there; supporting industriesare there; the people you run into in chance meetings are in thesame business.

Startup 108

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. But I think the, I just quickly adapted and I realized it wasn't just about writing software, things like customer service, marketing growth, those ideas were. EB : Yeah. Is this the requirement?

Silicon Valley 60

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? And if you look at what percentage of the global population lives within commuting distance of one of our offices, it's a tiny fraction of the world, far less than 1%. Do we need more regulation in this area or less?

IPO 113

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

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. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

PHP 166

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife. I thought, "Oh, I'll start it as a hobby, and if it turns into something, I'll hire a CEO.

Silicon Valley 159

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While institutional LPs know big changes are happening, most focus too much on 1) increasing/decreasing fund size or 2) marketing + branding as the major trends. Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. Big Funds, Big Brands, Big Data. Ok, let’s dive in and discuss in more detail.

Silicon Valley 74

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Part 1- Intro. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. marketing automation software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast and mgmt software. email blast software. email blast software. basic email software.

Software Review 53

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

This could be a great way for a business group to highlight, distribute and discuss important industry news, research or competitive analysis. Sparks This is the Google+ sharing function that let’s users identify and share stuff related to topics they care about. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Small Business 69

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

People Distribute Content If you’re creating online content, you’ve got to get the word out about it for people to share it far and wide with others. Beyond the creation of content itself, online content distribution begins with key relationships with others in your subject matter arena. It’s not called social media for nothing.

Social Media 41

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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. In my neck of the woods programmers are hired guns at first year in college.

Technical Review 84

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

1) Solve a Problem. After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. As I watched the new CEO hire and fire 3 regional VP’s I finally sat him down.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” What if the shift to subscriptions was not a trend limited to software, but one that is going on in many industries? An eponymous book (e.g. in favor of.

Naming 119

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Startup #1: Goldstar. Founders Paul Farnell, Matthew Brindley, and David Smalley started Litmus in 2005 with a used computer and $800 dollars. Today, Litmus has had over 30,000 customers, 1 million+ in revenue, and is growing by around 10% a month. How’d they do it? How’d they do it?

Bootstrapping 78

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