Posts by Dharmesh Shah

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Startup Wisdom From Babson Entrepreneurship Forum
guest November 15, 2010
The following is a guest post from Andy Cook. Andy is founder and chief geek at Rentabilities, a web startup that makes renting easy. -Dharmesh On Saturday Babson College hosted a…
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Chumps vs. Checks: Handling The Venture Capitalist Cold Call
guest November 8, 2010
The following is a guest post from Healy Jones. Healy is the Head of Marketing for OfficeDrop, a company that offers small businesses in paper intensive industries cloud scanning…
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Why PHP Is Fun and Easy But Python Is Marriage Material
development October 27, 2010
I think a lot about choices and decisions at startups. That is the life of a software entrerpreneur: It’s a stready stream of hard work, occasionally punctuated by some really hard…
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Win Free Seat to the Sold-Out 37signals Master Class
37signals October 18, 2010
After a long hiatus, the brilliant team at 37signals will be running another master class “How We Work”. Think of it as startup bootcamp — for a day. You get to interact in a small…
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17 Mutable Suggestions For Naming A Startup
marketing October 15, 2010
Naming a startup is hard. Very hard. On the one hand, the pragmatic entrepreneur thinks: “I shouldn’t be wasting time on this — for every successful company with a great name, there’s…
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Cumulative Advantage: Why You Need A Bias Towards Action
strategy September 24, 2010
The following is a guest post from Rob May. Rob is the founder and CEO of Backupify which provides secure, online backup for twitter, Facebook and GMail. [Note: I’m an angel investor…
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Building A Startup Marketing Plan: Tips In 3 Words
marketing September 9, 2010
The following is a guest post by Ilya Mirman. Ilya has spent the past decade running marketing for software vendors including SolidWorks, Interactive Supercomputing (acquired by…
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23 Tweetable Startup Insights From Seth Godin
September 1, 2010
Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a long-time admirer of Seth Godin. He’s one of those “big thinkers” that has the added talent of being able to articulate high-level…
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Announcing My New Startup Project: The Most Ambitious Yet
August 26, 2010
I am thrilled to announce my most recent — and most ambitious — startup project to date. My wife Kirsten and I are now expecting our first child — I’m going to be a dad! New Ambitous…
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Video From Business Of Software 2009: Building Great Software Businesses
sales August 23, 2010
Of the several conferences I attend or speak each at each year, my favorite is the Business of Software conference organized be Neil Davidson (of Red Gate) and Joel Spolsky (of Fog…
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6 Simple Selling Tips For Software Entrepreneurs
August 20, 2010
The following is a guest post by David Mytton founder of Boxed Ice, which provides software for server monitoring. Deep down inside, many software entrepreneurs really dislike…
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