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After VWO’s acquisition, its founder reflected on workflow problems, customer feedback, and keeping growth within the means of the business.
Solve a problem people will pay for before expanding the team.
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
Original EnglishI can only speak for myself, I am not that technical when it comes to a command line, and I have deployed zrok locally.
Start Self Hosting
Original EnglishI've managed to recover most of the data from a backup and set up my own blog.
VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks
Original EnglishI ran a small Internet Marketing agency for the last 15 years (15 people) and have been a publisher in my spare time, I sold …
Cloudflare took down our website
Original English- when the customer refuses enterprise they go "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
Original English(Which includes understanding & identifying your ideal clients because if you use a hammer to break a window and steal $1 million in diamonds, it's …
Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
Original EnglishSo whenever something breaks upstream, the first place customers notice the problem is in the system I maintain.
“PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as customers’ files”
Original EnglishWe lost 30% of our recurring monthly revenue right away!
Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC
Original EnglishAs VideoLan is a non-profit I tried to find info on their income to get a bigger picture, but failed to find that.
Don't Call Yourself a Programmer
Original EnglishI worked at a startup for 2 1/2 years, quit, went to grad school in math, did a postdoc, and am now a professor.