greg_holsclaw

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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
Thanks I have used all of my morning on this one post reading these. Should be distilled into the 25 five things not to do with your start-up.
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
User based growth, I would say no, the valley doesn't help grow that base is not tech focused. But word of mouth exposure, and the possibility of doing face to faces with potential experienced engineers/managers that you want to join, If yo
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
It is tough acquiring a short (under 8 letter) meaningful domain name now. I am curious to know how much it cost just to buy that domain. Sometimes you can make a nonsensical name stick with enough effort/branding: see zillow.com, it is all
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
I agree. Creative and brilliant ideas can come at anytime, but putting in the work to get those ideas to market, or to polish them off until presentable to outsiders is where the disciple comes in. I can wake up in the middle of the night w
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
Too much cash infused into a new or developing start-up can actually destroy the incentives needed for the start-up to be successful. Not needing to budget well and prioritize features (because we have cash to do them all) fights against th
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
Hmmm, I was trying to think how you can do such a thing on a smaller scale. You must have enough people in one geographic area to pull this off. So either you are launching in only a few locales, or you have a large enough national followin
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
I echo a commenter on the article: Code Complete 2. Read it all, use it all.
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
Looks like the freemium model for web hosting/construction. I have to agree with some other comments stating the staring templates are needed. People new to site construction will see the blank sites as too much, like when you give someone
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
Yep, we should all be crafting personal projects that double as severely frugal boot strapped startups of one. :)
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
Maybe programmers nudged out of the process is a feature not a bug. People who self select out of a hard hiring process may meet not Google's criteria for certain attributes they want to see in their candidate.
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
The costs associated with starting an LLC vary from state to state, but usually side jobs don't rise to level of needing liability insurance. If your side project is big enough to be a lawsuit target, then it isn't a side project anyway. Bu
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
With new companies like crowdflower.com and cloudcrowd.com making large pushs into this space, along with ODesk.com and similar competition, I see picking the right solution as paramount to helping a small startup bootstrap well. I have bee
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by greg_holsclaw 16y ago
I have a 15" (1680x1050) laptop with a 24" (1920x1200) second monitor. KVM switched to my Mac as well. This setup is great. I have background tasks on the laptop screen (email, system monitoring, directories) with my main dev work and auxil