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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

PHP may not be a great language, but the platform it enables does attract one particular kind of great developer: the cutting edge web gurus who work primarily in javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. Ajax is 10 times easier with php than any other language. Youll see its elegance its beauty, mix in some MVC and youre good to go.

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