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The Web Startup Success Guide
36,99 € |
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Verlag: | Apress |
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Veröffentl.: | 08.12.2009 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781430219866 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 440 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>If there's a software startup company in your developer heart, this is the book that will make it happen.</p>
<p><em>The Web Startup Success Guide</em> is your one-stop shop for all of the answers you need today to build a successful web startup in these challenging economic times. It covers everything from making the strategic platform decisions as to what kind of software to build, to understanding and winning the Angel and venture capital funding game, to the modern tools, apps and services that can cut months off development and marketing cycles, to how startups today are using social networks like Twitter and Facebook to create real excitement and connect to real customers.</p>
<p><strong>Bob Walsh</strong>, author of the landmark <em>Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality</em>, digs deep into the definition, financing, community–building, platform options, and productivity challenges of building a successful and profitable web application today.</p>
<p><em>The Web Startup Success Guide</em> is your one-stop shop for all of the answers you need today to build a successful web startup in these challenging economic times. It covers everything from making the strategic platform decisions as to what kind of software to build, to understanding and winning the Angel and venture capital funding game, to the modern tools, apps and services that can cut months off development and marketing cycles, to how startups today are using social networks like Twitter and Facebook to create real excitement and connect to real customers.</p>
<p><strong>Bob Walsh</strong>, author of the landmark <em>Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality</em>, digs deep into the definition, financing, community–building, platform options, and productivity challenges of building a successful and profitable web application today.</p>
Introduction: What Was Is Not What Is.- Value Is the Core of Your Startup.- So Many Platforms, So Many Options.- Tools and Groups for Startups.- Money: Raise, Manage, Make.- Social Media and Your Startup.- Clarity Matters.- Getting It Done.- Six Wise People.- What’s Next?.
Bob Walsh is the founder of 47Hats, a consulting firm/blog/startup dedicated to helping startups succeed, the author of Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, podcaster-in-chief of the Startup Success Podcast, co-moderator of the Joel on Software's Business of Software forum, and creator of StartupToDo.com, a online productivity app and community for startup and microISVs. At his company, Safari Software, Inc., Bob was a contract software developer for more than 20 years before launching, selling and ultimately selling off a Windows personal task manager commercial application. Before getting into information technology, Walsh was a reporter for several news organizations, the most worth bragging about being United Press International (UPI).
Accessible book on creating new business with low barriers to entry appeals to a wide range of developers Considers and covers a number of low-cost, popular, and very current web platforms like Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, and more Interviews with founders provide big-name attraction to title