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Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

Both Sides of the Table

Initially as a systems designer and programmer and post MBA as a strategy consultant. We had to promise really steep service SLAs and help desk hours. Some companies / products are designed for large organizations from day 1. Companies post the $5 / month product designed for self-service clients.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 The firm has taken the ease-of-use, interconnectivity, and other features we take granted from modern Web 2.0 How big is the firm now?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. The topic was VC signaling in seed rounds — and how these signals help or hurt your ability to raise money in the next round. they released a new 2.0 This is a great configuration for a starting team.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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As an example of how dumb they were (for those that don’t remember) whenever you changed one field in a browser-designed program the entire screen had to refresh. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. It was a terrible user experience. I’m not so sure. Workarounds are developed.

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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One of the very interesting things people were doing, which is the foundation of Quub, is what we've since stated calling micropresence--providing short little bits of information to help people reading their instant messages a clue of what was happening on the other side of the instant messaging line. What's the business model behind this?

Startup 100
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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media. Jason Kiesel: I got my start doing consulting work for the past twelve years in the web space. I started designing web sites, at a rudimentary level, right out of college, in 1997.

Startup 100
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Interview with Raph Koster, Metaplace

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There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0, The virtual worlds haven't really kept pace on how end user content has driven the growth of the web. They're not like the Internet. The analogy is they're more like AOL, or even like Prodigy used to be.

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