mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

However, you can mitigate confusion by buying domain names with likely misspellings and redirecting users to your site. Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Punctuation is trickier.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. Technical issues are fixed for Firefox users (thanks Rob for the comment). They are word docs so the.doc extension should work. Will try and fix today. I echo Peter's request.

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www.usv.com

MAY 29, 2012

In short, as described by Brad last year in 140 characters , USV invests in: Large networks of engaged users, differentiated through user experience, and defensible through network effects. When we are organizing our activities and thinking about investment decisions then, we parse that a little finer, we unpack some of the components.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). Now I work in the defense industry. It was yet another Web 2.0

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Also think pointedly about how you are going to get the word out to your potential users, where they are online and how you’ll approach them. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Test that your idea makes sense. The lack of that mention makes me question the overall quality of the conclusions. Nice article.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Especially apps such as Seesmic , a powerful web app dashboard for power users and the enterprise, and GitHub , an industry standard for source code hosting. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Why are these wide-eyed, adorable critters making their way into logo design? Apps are for adults, right?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Especially apps such as Seesmic , a powerful web app dashboard for power users and the enterprise, and GitHub , an industry standard for source code hosting. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. Why are these wide-eyed, adorable critters making their way into logo design? Apps are for adults, right?

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. I’ve chosen to outsource my bug tracking to FogBugz , and it runs me $25/user per month. at 3:43 pm I am a partner in four person consulting firm. This one’s your call.

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Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). The #1 lesson learned: having a business partner (50/50) is just like a marriage (although Thomas has never been married). Looking back, what did you learn and what would you have done differently? (0:14:15).

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

While keywords, links and content will have the biggest weight when it comes to cleaning up your site, you should by all means avoid these tactics if you want to bypass Penguin: Cloaking: Serving up a different version of your website to search engines and users in order to improve rankings. Top From Our Partners. Open Source Lists.

Algorithm 93

Algorithm Technical Review San Francisco SEO 93

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Once you have a first version of your app running, you can use the tools on this site to get it into the hands of users and to get paid.” High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source).

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