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Startup Hacks: Marketing with no money - RescueTime interview
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Or buy 5 stopwatches - one for each of the 5 apps you use most often. Then flip between them to track each app individually. ...and you should probably get a sixth to track how much time you spend flipping between stopwatches and work.
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Think you work hard? Think again.
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I have some experience with this. My business is http://linebuzz.com/ We wrote the first line of code on April 1 and launched on May 10. We were covered as dot-com of the day on 100shiki.com in Japan and within days we had users in 15 lan
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Rob Malda vs Alexa vs Slashdot vs Digg
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Joel's background is Micro$oft and Yale. He has a traditional approach to software engineering. MS is not a hub of innovation and never has been: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116490323676636989-Hn... Here's Dave Winer in that WS
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Functional specs are like business plans - time consuming, rapidly made redundant and extrinsic to the street fight of running a startup.
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The Nike Software Engineering Process
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I use the Nike process: JUST DO IT!
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What the new Patent Reform Act means for small startups
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btw, who runs your company and whether or not to sell your company are mutually exclusive issues. There are many examples of founders who have employed professional CEO's and taken a seat on the board as chairman. Pierre Omidyar is one of t
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I think it's a bad idea because your target market becomes your acquirer instead of your customer. Your business starts morphing into whatever the hot-new-thing is of the day rather than trying to solve a problem for your customer. If your
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...furthermore, have you noticed the trend in private equity to delist companies? Being a publicly trading company was fun in the 90's but there are many advantages to being private.
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It's the VC that pushes to go public. And if going public is your goal then it's logical to get into bed with VC's because they have the institutional connections. When chatting about liquidity events, most founders I know talk about getti
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Who else thinks VCs are dinosaurs?
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Brand Authority and the Milgram Experiment
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Marketing team brainstorms Facebook app launch (video)
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How to make the perfect cup of coffee
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What it's like to be an entrepreneur (video)
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Sure, massive distributed processing is a stretch. But as a general guideline for app architecture, this is IMHO a pretty good one. :)
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Saving server costs with Javascript
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Programming language choices for entrepreneurs
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