OpenID14 items tagged “startups”
What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise.
— Tim Bray 
6th January 2010, 8:20 am
Balsamiq: A look back at 2009. Peldi Guilizzoni from Balsamiq shares some numbers from 2009—$1.1 million profit on $1.6 million revenue, with a team of three people. 
3rd January 2010, 12:13 pm
StartupBoeing—Starting an Airline (via) Boeing’s guide to starting your own airline. 15th December 2009, 10:38 pm
If you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it.
— Reid Hoffman 21st May 2009, 9:56 pm
We advise startups to launch when they’ve added a quantum of utility: when there is at least some set of users who would be excited to hear about it, because they can now do something they couldn’t do before.
— Paul Graham 2nd April 2009, 10:43 am
Document startups in chaos as Adobe’s Flashpaper discontinues. Don’t be a sharecropper. 5th September 2008, 1:57 pm
Silicon Swings and Silicon Roundabouts. Matt Locke’s advice for anyone hoping to build a “Tech Hub” for startups, based on personal experience gained running a media centre in Yorkshire in the 90s. 1st August 2008, 8:20 pm
Silicon Roundabout. Matt Biddulph maps the abundance of interesting startups and tech companies that have popped up around Old Street in London. 28th July 2008, 1:36 am
How to sell your software for $20,000 (via) The best article I’ve read on software entrepreneurship in ages. 28th June 2008, 9:21 am
Hello Revver.com 2.0. Revver, one of the more established video startups, have launched their new version which is powered by Django. 2nd November 2007, 7:03 am
Questioning Steve Ballmer
This morning I attended a half day briefing at Microsoft UK entitled “The Online Opportunity—What Makes a Successful Web 2.0 Start-Up?”. Despite the buzzword laden title the event was well worth the trip up from Brighton, mainly due to the Q&A with Steve Ballmer (a pretty rare opportunity). [... 423 words]
Top 10 dotcoms to watch. From the Guardian—Dopplr and Moo both get a mention. 30th July 2007, 2:19 pm
You don’t need business development people. If you’re successful, companies will come to you. The deals will still be distractions and not worth doing, but at least you’re not spending any effort trying to get them.
— Mark Fletcher 12th July 2007, 5:50 pm
The bright side: web spam is an evolutionary force that pushes relevance innovations such as trustrank forward. Spam created the market opportunity for Google, when Altavista succumbed in 97-98. Search startups should be praying to the spam gods for a second opportunity.
— Rick Skrenta 15th February 2007, 11:15 am
