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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, only a few people today still think of Amazon as an online provider of books and related goods, now that they have exploded their business world-wide into every product arena, added web services (AWS), television and film production (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a bricks-and-mortar grocery chain (Whole Foods), and more.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly.

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Sales Kids With Grit – Web 2.0 Paper Routes

InfoChachkie

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? Accounting?

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. Along with a team of nine developers, the six young adult authors spent two months working nights and weekends to bring Realms of Ruin to life. The element of a community treasury was poorly explained too, the source admits.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. However, every web application needs and email component. What is Sendgrid?

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store.