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Shortening The Small Business Software Selection Process

YoungUpstarts

Many of these tasks – accounting, billing/invoicing, marketing – can be streamlined and, in many cases, automated with the right software. We practice what we preach by leveraging our own business software review platform for valuable research and customer testimonials and it has saved us time and money.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014.

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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us. The best part was that it was a blind review.

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Five Ways to Prepare for the 2014 E-Commerce Season

YoungUpstarts

If your shopping cart software fails to deliver, you could be losing sales. Does your cart display items, order status and extras like reviews, product ratings, images and discount offers? The e-commerce shopping season kicks off in earnest on Cyber Monday, which will fall on December 1 in 2014.

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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors

Steve Blank

Please watch the video, review the slides and blog posts]. INTERACTIVE CHART “ Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage per Gigabyte 1980-2014” Human Progress. They heard from a professor that the ratio of Stanford students taking software versus hardware courses was 10-to-1 software, a complete reversal from decades ago.

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Startups – Integrating Security Mindset and Processes Early

YoungUpstarts

Combine this with the fact that third-party code or library integration is almost unavoidable these days. It is important from the onset to set simple rules to help ensure coding best practices are followed while dealing with the sheer number of technologies and languages that can be involved in a single project.

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Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips

crowdSPRING Blog

Here are our top 10 tips to help you create an awesome website design in 2014: 1. Other 2014 design trends include blurred backgrounds, simple animations, more scrolling, and bigger fonts. For even more about 2014 design trends, I recommend you read 18 pivotal web design trends for 2014. Your website reflects your brand.