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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

1) Be sure to check your proposed business name in various search engines - to check on possible competition - who comes up 1st when you type in the name, are they in the same industry etc. I'm working with a PR/Communications gurus who is trying to focus me on a name, that when you hear it, it tells people what it is you are doing.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

It is a service that directly competes with your hosting provider, since it allows you to create and dynamically provision identical instances of your software. You define what operating system you need, what web server you want to run, what database to use, etc. December 27, 2007 at 3:03 pm Great Tips for Web 2.0 Startups!!!

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. 27:06) Helpwithcovid's DNA. (27:55)

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. Like what?! Joel Martinez.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Speaking from experience: My mate paid someone to build him a database-driven website. In addition to showing him what to do, I also pointed out the vulnerabilities and demonstrated how easy it was to login into the admin area of his site without knowing any username or password or database table or column names. So is database design.