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Should Our Schools Teach Latin or HTML?

Eric Greenspan

I read Les Miserables in French and I’ve seen the theater production over 20 times. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. Marketing maniac.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Are there specs?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Major Phases / Major Features - What are the major features in the major phases for the product? Are there specs?

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

socalTECH

We have lots of companies like Namechief, Dreamhost, and Google, as well as lots of others, who use our APIs under the cover to provide domain names to their customers. Our focus is really making the new domain name process easy, both from the wholesale perspective and our APIs, as well as for all customers.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. ” Clearly, the right time to trumpet your product is when it can live up to the media hype. Winning customers is sales.