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[Review] Startup Weekend

YoungUpstarts

There’s advice on setting up flexible organizational structures, idea validation, the power of experiential education, action-based networking, and such… but the most important thing you’ll learn from the book is empowerment, and the idea that you don’t have to go at it alone.

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

According to Google, a page is fully interactive when the page displays useful content, event handlers are registered for most visible page elements, and the page responds to user interactions with 50 milliseconds. Work with your team to uninstall resource intensive plugins that aren’t often being used and remove unnecessary scripts.

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Blockchain is more than memes, wild price fluctuations and my old pal Elon’s tweets

Austin Startup

Our Cold Chain solution removes the need for blind trust, replacing it with transparent event data collected at each step in the supply chain. That event data comes from many sources that build up trust in the system. That implies that events that might need to be recorded have already happened.

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Survival Tips From A Seasoned Digital Nomad Who Made It Out The Other Side

YoungUpstarts

by Martin Hunter, co-founder of Free Event Finder. Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. They founded Free Event Finder.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? I would caution any founder that finding and being successful with equity-only developers is tough. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. Go to user groups.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. If you feel like looking for offshore developer talent, you can try Softensity. Our developer friends recommend checking out StackOverflow’s career section and LimeExchange , too. PM OK, agree.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. event I did last fall. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch.