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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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5 Lessons From the Garage48 Helsinki Hackathon

ReadWriteStart

It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. There is a requisite for each team to have at least one developer (frontend or backend), a designer and a marketing person. Focus on technology you know. Set a clear, detailed objective.

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6 Customer Journey Mapping Examples: How UX Pros Do It

ConversionXL

Rather, we build models hoping to reflect reality with a certain degree of accuracy, but with the tradeoff that they’re usable and help us make customer-focused product, design, UX, and marketing decisions. Depending on the expert you’re following and the product you’re mapping, the design will be different.

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10 Companies Want To Show You The Money

YoungUpstarts

Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation. An online marketplace offering 3.5 million Gigs®, or services, at just 5 bucks.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Just what is the CTO supposed to do?

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. but rest assured they would be. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

From startup Rovio in Finland. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Think again.

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