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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

A well-performing application will not slow, block, or otherwise frustrate the fulfillment of requests based on other users’ concurrent activities. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today. Framework Benchmarks. a single-threaded search engine).

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

By December of 2009, with our little portfolio of simple games such as Snowball Fight, we were at 27 million monthly user son Facebook, and we were one of the top 10 developers on Facebook in terms of pure reach. Michael Witz: Building out our team We're actively looking for product managers, artists, engineers, PHP engineers.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s set up a framework. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions.

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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

Tech Zulu Event

While Journey has launched now in mid-2012, it is the result of technology that we have been building and deploying in production since 2009, when Embark Mobile was founded. Embark Mobile has been building and delivering mobile implementations to businesses since 2009. When was it launched? What inspired you to come up with it?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. Do fewer structured activities. You could just outspend.

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