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B2C, B2B, B2G: what about us B2Developer Startups?

August 2, 2010
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You’ve heard the adage that doctors make the worst patients? Well, software developers can be a hard market to sell software to. That’s why I’m especially pleased to announce a new StartupToDo.com Scholarship just for those startups building and selling the tools we all need to build our products.
Code Complete Software, which markets and sells [...]

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We should discuss this.

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And now we can at StartupToDo.com. I just put into production Version 2.15, adding Group-centric Discussions to S2D. What’s Group-centric? It’s my stab at keeping Discussions and their Posts on-topic. Over the past 4+ years I’ve been a moderator at Joel on Software Business of Software Forum. Many is the time I’ve wished for some [...]

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Announcing the UserTesting.com StartupToDo.com Scholarship

June 10, 2010
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It’s easy when you are a small startup to become 150% wrapped up in it; after all, you’re building your dream. That’s why it’s very cool when a startup takes time out from what they are doing to help other startups. Today we are announcing the start of the UserTesting.com StartupToDo.com Scholarship.
Here’s how Aimee Williamson, [...]

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StartupToDo.com: why all the scholarships?

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I’d don’t know about you, but if I hadn’t gotten a couple of small, key scholarships, I would not have gone to college. It wasn’t just the money – it was having someone real tell me that, yes, I should be in college that made a huge difference. When you’re doing something new, different and [...]

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Announcing StartupToDo.com Version 2

May 10, 2010
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It’s been a long haul, but StartupToDo.com Version 2 is officially out today!
Four times faster loading each and every page. Supports all current browser versions. With a new layout throughout thats easier to read, easier to work with and just plain more attractive. And now with an industry-standard 30 day free trial period before you [...]

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New: 130 Microsoft WebsiteSpark StartupToDo.com Scholarships.

March 17, 2010
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Microsoft WebsiteSpark is sponsoring 130 six-month full scholarships to StartupToDo.com for professional web developers and designers.
Here’s how it works: if you’re a web designer/developer delivering sites to customers and you have less than 10 employees, I can now sponsor you for the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. And if you live in the U.S., Microsoft is [...]

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And the winner is…

February 8, 2010
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Michael Buckbee. Michael asked the best question during our recent contest with Legal River and its new answerboard. Michael gets an hour of free legal advice/work and a free year’s membership to StartupToDo.com.
“I’m a software developer for The Social Collective (http://www.thesocialcollective.com) we create specialized social network tools for conference, festivals and tradeshows. If you’re going [...]

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10 Oasis Digital StartupToDo.com Scholarships awarded.

January 8, 2010
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All 10 Oasis Digital StartupToDo.com Scholarships recipients have now gotten the good news and accepted.
For the next six months these ten St. Louis startups will enjoy what StartupToDo.com has to offer free, thanks to Oasis Digital.
So what are these startups up to? Have a look:
Jason King, details.at, building a tinyURL like service, only better.
Rob Rose, [...]

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And then there was one…

December 31, 2009

Nine Oasis Digital StartupToDo.com Scholarships recipients have now gotten the good news and accepted.
If you are based in the St. Louis area and are building a software startup, there’s four one Scholarship still up for grabs – here’s the details: Announcing the first 10 StartupToDo.com Scholarships.
The 3 latest recipients are:

Clayton Smith, WorldKi, online platform and [...]

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First six Oasis Digital StartupToDo.com Scholarships awarded

December 23, 2009

The first six Oasis Digital StartupToDo.com Scholarships recipients have gotten the good news and accepted. Of these six, five are already a part of St. Louis-based Information Technology Entrepreneur Network. Startup lesson of the day – it pays to make local networking connections.
If you are based in the St. Louis area and are building a [...]

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Announcing the first 10 StartupToDo.com Scholarships.

December 14, 2009
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When I started building StartupToDo.com two years ago, I knew there would be sharp, experienced IT professionals yearning to start their own software businesses, who would get a key boost out of my service, but who could not afford a subscription. Even a small scholarship at the right time for the right person can have [...]

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Come hell or high water…

October 20, 2009

A short post to let you know that:

The MicroISV Digest will return here Monday October 26th.
The Startup Success Podcast for this week is being worked on at this moment by our Executive Producer, Francesca Amari. Francesca has been the reason the last 6 or shows have come out like clockwork – The issues with the [...]

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Greeting Cards I wish I could buy…

October 1, 2009
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Here’s – in my opinion – a huge unmet need: online greeting cards for IT people. I have all the usual traditional e-cards covered at Jacquie Lawson, but what about those special moments only we IT/Online people have?
For example Marcus M. just informed me that I was successful a couple of nights ago getting http://startuptodo.com [...]

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Announcing StartupToDo.com (Project X)

September 28, 2009
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I’ve got something new for you. Something that will take a lot of the pain, delay, frustration and wasted time out of bootstrapping your startup, microISV, mISV, indie game house or microlight: StartupToDo.com.
I created StartupToDo.com to solve a couple of huge challenges I’ve seen literally hundreds of skilled developers struggle with over the years:

You can [...]

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What’s wrong with the Business of Software Forum.

July 16, 2009

In short, nothing. But for startups and microISVs looking for help from their peers with their web sites, it has some distinct disadvantages; disadvantages I think I can improve upon in StartupToDo.com. Take an example:

As of now there are 5 responses to Ted’s post – about average – and they’re good responses. But, in my [...]

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