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The Moldova connection

Start Up Blog

Doesn’t seem like such a big deal… … Until you know that I first met Vasilii via oDesk as a freelanc web developer back in 2007. Meet Vasilii Racovitsa – Pictured below – sharing a meal with me in my home. And that Vasilii was born during the cold war in the old USSR in a provence called Moldova.

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3 Cost-Saving Tips for Your Business Website

The Startup Magazine

Luckily, you don’t need HTML know-how to build a website today. Weebly : Since its inception in 2007, Weebly has remained popular as website builder with small businesses. So if you are a small business owner who need to build your website without paying $10,000 to a web designing company, these 3 tips will help you to get started.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Trending Stories.

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The Advanced Guide to Transactional Emails That Convert

ConversionXL

In fact, as Justin Fyles of Intrepid explains, they aren’t even developed in the same way… Justin Fyles , Intrepid : “A marketing email with dynamic content is typically a static HTML email with simple tags for recipient-specific information that get merged with customer lists. They added some simple social media links.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Our development was a particularly complicated build requiring 5 developers, a systems architect, an html coder, a SQL specialist, 4 testers, 2 designers, a graphic designer, a project manager and a security specialist. Posted by: Serkan | September 10, 2007 4:44 AM Thanks Serkan - the next post will be up soon. Cant wait for more ;).