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Jul
17
Posted by mark.
I’ll often find myself chatting about choice of technology with fellow entrepreneurs and invariably it’s assumed the new web app is going to be developed in Rails.
I don’t know enough about Rails to judge it’s worth. I do know that you can develop applications in Rails very quickly and that it scales complexity better than Perl. Rails may have problems scaling performance. I also know that you can’t hire a Rails developer in Seattle for love or money.
So here are …
Jul
16
Posted by mark.
I run two consumer web businesses. LineBuzz.com and Geojoey.com. Both have more than 50% of the app impelemented in Javascript and execute in the browser environment.
Something that occurred to me a while ago is that, because most of the execution happens inside the browser and uses our visitors CPU and memory, I don’t have to worry about my servers having to provide that CPU and memory.
I found myself moving processing to the client side where possible.
[Don’t worry, we torture our …
Jul
16
Posted by mark.
In an earlier post I suggested that too much competitive analysis too early might be a bad idea. But it got me thinking about the tools that are available for gathering competitive intelligence about a business and what someone else might be using to gather data about my business.
Archive.org
One of my favorites! Use archive.org to see how your competitors website evolved from the early days until now. If they have a robots.txt blocking iarchive (archive.org’s web crawler) then you’re …
Jul
15
Posted by mark.
Just a tiny bit of wisdom I picked up along the way. As always, I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
If you’re selling your business, you’re going to be handed an M&A agreement. That agreement is probably going to have something like 15 pages of representations and warranties – things that you claim are true about your business. At the end of the reps and warranties, there’s going to be a penalty section. The penalty section …
Jul
14
Posted by mark.
Creating your own startup is easy. You don’t need an MBA. You don’t need an expensive law firm. You don’t need an ‘older more mature CEO’ to hold your hand. And if you can afford 6 months without an income and $5k to get started, you might not even need a VC or Angel investor.
You just need to be OK with researching to find the info you need and acting on it. I’ve written this as a very basic guide …