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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Product : You should build a product or a prototype. I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. But for most businesses it is.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. The article can take 10 hours to write a good article and the paperwork can take five hours.

Journal 90
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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. Register a company.

Startup 365
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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. See the books I recommend to friends.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. Our goal is to approximate a sensible production deployment as accurately as possible. getQueryParameters().getParameterValue("queries").toInt(1);

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. Our goal is to approximate a sensible production deployment as accurately as possible. getQueryParameters().getParameterValue("queries").toInt(1);

Framework 560