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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.

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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The question is: How can you own your little piece of the world; Not: How can you wrest $100m of revenue from a big guy. Can you imagine a tool from Microsoft that supported ClearCase, ran inside Eclipse, and had excellent support for Java?). but doesn't have to be worth $1B, then the game isn't "us or them."

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP. Plus, by the time you’re ready to expand into a paid service, your business should have some revenue trickling in the front door to justify the upgrade. It’s also important that you try stick to programming language that run on UNIX. Step 5: Marketing and sales.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

Founders seem to take for granted exactly how in demand a good programmer is. Simultaneously, founders tend to take for granted how in demand bad programmers are too. There is a huge demand for programmers in America – good and bad. The old rules of supply and demand should apply in this case, but they don’t.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

Because we African-Americans have our own urban communities, we are smart people and there is real demand for innovation, our people can quickly move forward with blockchain and go straight to market.

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Frictionless Sales (continued)

BeyondVC

Frictionless sales means reducing the pain for customers to adopt and use a service/product and consequently reducing the cost of sales and marketing to get a customer and generate revenue. Ultimately what you want is sales leverage where every $1 you spend on sales and marketing equals multiples of that in terms of revenue.

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Bankless Banking Is Ready For Its Close-Up

YoungUpstarts

A customer can transfer money or pay for goods and services by sending an SMS , using a Java application or other mobile communication technologies. Accenture Consulting “ estimates that bringing unbanked adults and businesses into the banking sector could generate about $380 billion in new revenue for banks.” With 25% of India’s 1.2

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