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Web Startup Success Guide

Two detailed reviews…

October 1, 2009

FYI, Alain Raynaud, CEO of Fairsoftware.net (which you should check out) just posted a very nice review of The Web Startup Success Guide at his blog: Book Review: The Web Startup Success Guide.
Also, Pietro Polsinelli wrote an awesomely detailed review of the Guide here:
A review of “The Web Startup Success Guide”. Pietro is working [...]

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Picking up steam….

September 9, 2009
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David Ganly and Dimitris Mistriotis over at Notion Learning just posted a very positive review of The Web Startup Success Guide at their blog.
No matter how much you think you know about starting up, there’s so much more to learn from the book.
Thanks guys! You made my day!
And by the way, if you’ve read [...]

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What’s in the book, Bob?

July 27, 2009

A lot – if you’re an experienced developer ready to stop working for other people and start working for yourself. Below is a PDF of the Table of Contents to give you a more specific idea of what’s in The Web Startup Success Guide:

(If you don’t see a PDF above this line, please let me [...]

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Joel Spolsky on The Web Startup Success Guide

July 24, 2009
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(Note: Joel Spolsky, CEO of Fog Creek Software, Joel on Software and the Joel on Software Business of Software forum and co-Founder of Stack Overflow was kind enough to write the foreward for The Web Startup Success Guide.)

Last summer, Paul Graham invited me to stop by his place in Cambridge for an intimate dinner. Just [...]

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It’s shipped! And, an interview with David Allen

July 22, 2009
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It’s always fun to be able to say the words, “It’s shipped!” , especially if you don’t actually have to do the shipping. Yesterday, paper copies of The Web Startup Success Guide started arriving at customer’s doors; I got my 20 author copies in the middle of an interview for a future Startup Success Podcast [...]

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Tools for Startups.

July 17, 2009

One of the great things about doing a startup now is the growing range of tools, services, meetups, associations and conferences available to you. The numbers of these resources both Online and off grow each month.
These new tools and services can shave months off the development cycle while improving your startup’s game. In Chapter [...]

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So Many Platforms, So Many Options.

July 15, 2009

One of the single most important decisions a startup’s founders can make is deciding which platform is going be their first. The era when Bill (Gates) and Steve (Jobs) defined a duopoly of two desktop platforms on which startups could build is well and truly over.
Today, SaaS, PaaS, Social, Mobile, Hybrid, Open Source CMS platforms [...]

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Social Media and your Startup.

July 13, 2009

How do you get press attention for your startup? How do you get any attention for your startup? Those are the two main questions Chapter 6 of my new book, The Web Startup Success Guide answers and you can get that chapter right now from Apress.
Social Media – Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest – [...]

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Finding the right business partner.

May 31, 2009

As some of you know, I’ve spent the last six months writing The Web Startup Success Guide. One giant – and personally uncomfortable – lesson learned in all those interviews was the finding the right partner or two could make a huge difference in whether your small software company will succeed.
It’s not about getting funding [...]

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Little did I know…

May 12, 2009

Here I am toiling away, and I get this email PR:
Hello,
SpeedDate.com, the world’s first speed dating Web site, is the first major dating site to launch an Android application that offers portable, immediate and 24-hour access to the millions of singles engaged in online dating.  According to a poll by Yankelovich Partners, 81 percent of [...]

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Getting with the times…

March 26, 2009

So tonight I’m going to drive down to “Casual Drinks with Avangate” for the not so casual purpose of finding a few startups to interview for The Web Startup Success Guide (http://apress.com/book/view/1430219858). I realized I might want to do a few on the spot interviews which meant rummaging around for my handheld digital recorder, seeing [...]

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Startup Success Guide Notebook. Entry #1

January 19, 2009

I’m working on The Startup Success Guide for Apress presently, and as I go along, I’m going to be doing short posts like this when something or someone really grabs my attention. Not sure how this will work out – I guess we’ll find out.
Why the reporter’s notebook image? In a lot of ways, I [...]

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