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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. Struggling to come up with enough topics?

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. Many people start companies arse backwards. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

Don’t blog about what you think would be “cool.&# I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup. The new stuff: How do I get started? The advantage of the hosted version is that it’s easier to get started. Slice it up enough to do many posts.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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The last time we spent much time chatting with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage , they were at Los Angeles telephony software firm Fonality , busy getting their employees set up in a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) "fight club". When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Starting again with EC2. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. JSON serialization test.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. Starting again with EC2. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. JSON serialization test.

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Everything about Java 8

TechEmpower

At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. I'll do my best to keep this document up to date. A stream can only be traversed once, then it's used up. They start off as one and may be switched to the other using stream. It performs better than RRWL when used as a plain read-write lock.

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