Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. Before starting OwnerListens in 2011, I spoke with over 100 business owners across ?the

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. What Are You Willing To Do For The Rest of Your Life? Attn Google: The Rest of My Sci-Fi Wish List – [link]. – [link].

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. The rest, as they say, is history. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Tip: click on your competitors’ listings to see additional sites their reviews are coming from.)

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 26, 2010

I have created a ONE PAGE self-asessment checklist called “ Metrics That Matter for 2011. &# You can download it by clicking on image to the left or the download button below. Bonus : Send this blog post or the PDF to one or more people that you care and help them create an year that they will remember for the rest of their lives.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 16, 2011

This post is my post-mortem for MicroConf 2011 , which took place last week in Las Vegas, NV. This post is an attempt to review the awesomeness that happened as well as the stuff that I’m hoping we can change if we wind up holding MicroConf in 2012. A time to reflect on things that went right and things that needed work.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

should rest with a COO; the CTO is a research and ad tech discipline in the strategic planning domain. But if it’s wrong, the CTO has solid documentation to review. I believe that SMEs, due to financial constraints, settle for a CTO with hybrid responsbilities that also include CIO duties. March 1, 2011 12:31 PM.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

billion today as a public company (it went public in 2011). Mike helped Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey capitalize Twitter, and the rest is history. voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales. Those who make the news set the tone for the rest. It is worth $3.4

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The rest is history. I was a developer so I could write code, but not blog posts. The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. I wanted to narrow our focus to just social media, but in 2011 many people told me I was foolish, that it was still a passing fad.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Although the rest of us probably won’t be able to get our questions for business leaders answered directly, there’s likely a video on MeetTheBoss TV that is relevant to your issue. If you prefer a face-to-face conversation, there’s also an option to search for a mentor by your zip code.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

A 2011 Deloitte study further confirms these sentiments by suggesting a link between workplace volunteerism and positive corporate culture. Give credit where credit is due. Here at Palo Alto Software, we’ve put together a slideshare deck that covers our cultural tenets as a company. Family-friendly policies. Fun events.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

happens every year, but the speed at which summer travels relative to the rest of the year catches me by surprise. I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. October 3, 2011 6:21 AM. hp coupon code. October 20, 2011 7:34 AM. ► 2011. (7).

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Late last week, I wanted to take a step back and review what has transpired the last two years. In the rest, we were part of the first “institutional round” We have not participated in any seed extensions or full-blown series A investments as our first check into a company. So that 23 is right on pace.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. If you want to stress test this,… go back to your 2011 (pre- not provided ) data for paid and organic and see what you can find. If I knew the personality of the page, I could optimize for that and then the rest is up to the search engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. billion in total industry sales. Today it is even larger.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. Web-Based Software by 37signals.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This has lead to a massive checkout database with 508 checkout steps reviewed, 975 screenshots, and 3,000+ examples of adherences and violations of the checkout usability guidelines. steps, counting from the shopping cart to the step where the order is actually placed — often a “review and confirm order” step.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Henry , Chris Callahan , Travis Briggs , Nene Kalu , Nikolay Pohodnya , Jamin Wong , Nick Gauthier , Anon User, Andrea Narciso , Steve Shapero , Max Yankov , Christopher Wiley , Bruce Serven and Tony Karrer This question gets asked a lot on Quora, but this one strikes me due to the phrasing. Stephen Pitt-Francis • Jan 5, 2011 Why?

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

It was tough work convincing them, but you can’t rest on your laurels now. Guest author Travis Sheppard is VP of Technology at BGT Partners , a 2010, 2011 and 2012 Ad Age Top 15 Best Place to Work in the U.S. Below we’ll review the steps of the typical waterfall process and explain how they can become responsive.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2015

For software companies, a similar measure of repurchase loyalty is the maintenance contract renewal rates. In February 2011, the company’s NPS was very high at 73 percent. Then, in the fall of 2011, the company decided to split off its home delivery of DVDs and the streaming service into two companies, which angered customers.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

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.”. The native platform. The Web-based platform. After raising a $19.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

You can fit most of the rest of the world into the African continent’s landmass. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. 43 page dress code manual at UBS AG? You’re Not an Entrepreneur – [link].

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

As an example, eBay’s 2011 marketplace revenues were approximately $6.6B This way no one leaves the network due to excessive fees, yet you end up with a higher average rake over time due to the competitive dynamic. The rest is history. against GMS of approximately $68.6B for a rake percentage of just under 10%.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Wednesday, November 2, 2011. The rest of the time was taken to boot Linux, start the Apache Tomcat JVM that runs our automation tooling, start the Cassandra JVM and join the "ring" that makes up the Cassandra data store. Disk reads are due to the compaction processing that combines Cassandra SSTables in the background.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. Build something.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 All the rest is noise. So, here goes.

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designshack.co.uk

JUNE 8, 2011

Home Gallery Articles Accessibility Business Critique CSS Freebies Graphics HTML Inspiration Interviews JavaScript Layouts Navigation PHP Reviews Software Typography Web Standards Deals Submit Submit a Design Design Dilemma Why get an account? Professional Hosting by (mt) Copyright © Compact Creative Limited 2005-2011 Company No.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bingcubator is separated from the rest of the Microsoft campus and will have separate keycard access, so startups won’t be completely assimilated into the Borg. The Fund is the brainchild of Sood, who joined Microsoft in January, 2011. Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2016

I made it my mission to build modern, easy-to-use free software that could eliminate this paperwork once and for all. Homebase’s free cloud based software helps thousands of small businesses eliminate the paperwork of managing hourly and freelance employees. Thanks to John Waldmann, Homebase. #6 6 – Sub-par Performances.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 22, 2016

It’s what sets apart the NBA superstars from random ball players, it’s what makes the difference between a software developer making top dollar and someone having to struggle to find an odd freelance gig for a few bucks. And that’s when I launched ConversionXL in 2011. Set aside at least 30 minutes a day to read.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

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