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Top Experts Dish with their Best Kept Marketing Secrets(smallbiztrends.com)
1 points by dshah 19y ago|0 comments
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The Entrepreneurship Myth(businessweek.com)
34 points by dshah 19y ago|28 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
Thanks, I think. :) <self-serving-crap> For the record, we're a bit different from many startups in that we believe in "User Generated Revenue" (what was previously known as "sales"). We're growing revenue (not traffic) at double-
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by dshah 19y ago
Rand, Great to see you here. I'm working on a "all startups, all the time" social news site as an extension to OnStartups.com Stay tuned... If someone here would like to be the community manager for the new site, drop me a line (I'd even b
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by dshah 19y ago
Fair point. I'm glad I didn't use my original title idea: 13 Ways To Tell If Your Lover Is Cheating, But 14 Ways To Tell If You'd Make A Good Developer For A Startup
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by dshah 19y ago
You are fortunate to have actually had the opportunity to work for a great manager. Most of us have never had that luxury.
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Adam's Manifesto (from Xobni)(xobni.com)
4 points by dshah 19y ago|0 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
My startup, HubSpot ( http://www.HubSpot.com ) is built on ASP.NET. Though there are certainly irritations and annoyances, it has worked fine for us.
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by dshah 19y ago
I'd suggest writing a blog yourself and establishing some credibility. Given your target market, this seems like a good thing.
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by dshah 19y ago
We're using YUI too. Has worked well for us so far.
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by dshah 19y ago
Well said. One thing that was glaringly missing from Joel's article was the importance of taking in user feedback and iterating like crazy. I'd go so far as to say that iteration is even more important than fine-grained estimates.
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Paul Graham Gets Vague when Boston needs analysis(buzzboston.wordpress.com)
16 points by dshah 19y ago|23 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
It's one thing to put put a store in the mall. It's another to pay the landlord for every customer that walks in, make heavy renovations and investments to the degree that it's almost impossible to ever move out.
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Startups: Why A Real Market Of A Few Is Better Than A Mythical Market of Millions(onstartups.com)
5 points by dshah 19y ago|1 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
I'd be curious as to whether YC companies should be considered "self-financed". It's kind of like taking money from a really smart family member that happens to be very well connected.
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88% are Millionaires and 6 More Surprises From Entrepreneurial Survey(onstartups.com)
16 points by dshah 19y ago|3 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
Too vague. I'm guessing there are lots of folks looking for co-founders who can hack and design.
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by dshah 19y ago
This is way better than the original article. Takes a more detailed look at what might be going on over there. I think the key point (for me) was the notion that great developers like to build new things.
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37Signals and the Paradox of Success(davidpiccione.com)
20 points by dshah 19y ago|6 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
Hastily written? Guilty as charged. As far as link spam, who in their right mind would link to this?
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by dshah 19y ago
Yeah, this is one of the issues they've had for a while. There's a fine line between having opinionated software and having stubborn software that doesn't respond to user feedback.
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Web 2.0 = web app + 2 founders + 0 revenue(dondodge.typepad.com)
5 points by dshah 19y ago|6 comments
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by dshah 19y ago
I agree with the transparency part, but I don't think the the "equal shares" concept is necessarily sound. It assumes that all founders are contributing equally which is not always the case. What you are looking to do is make things equita
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by dshah 19y ago
We're using C#/ASP.NET (which though rare across startups, has worked out well for us so far).
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by dshah 19y ago
I agree totally. Often, half the battle is just knowing good design when you see it (i.e. picking what to emulate).
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by dshah 19y ago
Yes, but it seems from discussion here earlier news.yc user accounts are reviewed as part of the YC application process (this has been mentioned before). As such, even though PG would never penalize users for upvoting critical articles, I'm
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by dshah 19y ago
Good point. We've already taken measures to ensure that: 1. Define a specific audience (business geeks) 2. Weight different users differently (so new users don't have the same authority as the regulars)
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by dshah 19y ago
Somewhat self-serving, but I've launched a new social news site focused on business topics: http://www.DailyHub.com The content is good and the traffic is steadily growing.
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by dshah 19y ago
Though it takes a fair amount of time, I've found that a blog is a good place to recruit (as it provides potential recruits some insight into the company).
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Why Feedburner is trouble (scripting.com)
7 points by dshah 19y ago|4 comments

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