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Another Startup on eBay: Is This The Best We Can Do?
September 16, 2006
Seems the trend to auction startups up on eBay is increasing. The latest is the GoldenFeed listing on eBay. This is a “Web 2.0” startup that does some type of bidding based RSS feed.…
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Business Geeks: Automated Software Testing as Competitive Advantage
September 13, 2006
This blog’s audience can be simplistically divided into two types of people: 1. technology geeks (folks with a technology background, and more specifically a software development…
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Web 2.0: Soft Landings vs. Hard Crashes
September 11, 2006
I’ve gotten a bit of criticism for a couple of my prior articles about the Web 2.0 startup crashes of Kiko and HuckABuck, both of which listed their companies for sale on eBay. [Note:…
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Web 2.0 Crashes: Another Startup Being Sold On eBay
September 7, 2006
First, there was Kiko (which was widely covered all over the blogosphere, including here at OnStartups.com). Now, we have HuckABuck being offered on eBay:…
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Startups: On Being Your Own Customer
August 24, 2006
Many of the successful startups I’ve known or been associated with were originally started because the founder was looking to meet her own needs and requirements. The story is quite…
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Python vs. C#: Frameworks, Libraries and Ecosystems
July 28, 2006
This is the third in a series of articles in looking at some of the tradeoffs between Python and C#, particularly for startups. The first article is here (which is not necessary…
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Python vs. C#: Business and Technology Tradeoffs
July 25, 2006
This is the second in a series of articles looking at the merits of Python vs. C# for startups. The first article is here (though it is not necessary to read the prior article to get…
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Python vs. C#: Understanding Personal Bias
July 24, 2006
Warning: This is likely going to be a series of somewhat lengthy articles, because the topic is complicated and needs to weave in a number of conceptual threads, some technical and…
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The Thin Client, Thick Client Cycle
May 28, 2006
One of the repeated cycles I have seen in my 15+ years in the software industry is that we constantly go through this “thin client / thick client” cycle. In the 1980s, there was still…
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Selecting A Platform: Part 4
November 5, 2005
This is part four in the series on selecting a technology platform. Startups generally have more flexibility in picking a platform since many of the factors that would normally drive…
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Selecting A Platform: Part 3
November 5, 2005
This is the third part in a series of articles related to platform selection for software startups. In this article, we’ll look at how target customers and users might affect the…
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