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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

You can install Apache or Nginx with virtual hosting, and run several sites plus other various tools of your choice (assuming you have the technical skills of course) like a MySQL database. Here’s what we found (Customer Discovery during the week). Here’s what we’re going to do (for next week).

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Who’s lying?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Revenue from your billing system compared to cash flows from your bank statements. A good way to check for bad data is to replicate the airplane dashboard method of deriving the same information in two different ways.

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled? Billing and revenue collection. Whether you provide an online subscription service, or sell products in a store, you need to consistently and economically sell your product and collect revenue to survive.

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Fundrise CTO: New SQL Tools Lead to ‘Wonderfully Seamless Solutions’

The Startup Magazine

It’s essential in relational database management, enabling operations like querying for data subsets, updating records, and managing database structures. It’s essential in relational database management, enabling operations like querying for data subsets, updating records, and managing database structures.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers.

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On the (un?)importance of design

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Not only were the pages just ugly, they were peppered with database errors and CSS blowups: Just look at us now , sporting a grayscale 1950′s automotive motif playing off the “engine&# concept using the latest in CSS3/HTML5 trickery: It was such a contrast, customers emailed us saying “Thank God you fixed that horrible website.

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Personalization: How to Build a Revenue Boosting Program from Scratch

ConversionXL

It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams. RFM (Recency, frequency, and monetary value) was first used in the direct mail and database marketing space as a customer segmentation technique. If you are in B2B, you’ve certainly heard of account-based marketing by now.