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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? SEO Support Will URLs and page content need to be properly formed for SEO?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups )? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Administrators?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups )? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Administrators?

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

Only later did I realize that this was part of Dharmesh Shah’s larger blog and that the software was based on the popular “stack overflow&# software. I felt that the Stack Overflow software made it much more obvious what I was supposed to do when I arrived. articles and leaves.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. I understand his frustration.