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19 Articles match "Mixergy","Software"
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
So what does this have to do with Haystack, the company that’s sponsoring me here on Mixergy? Should search be ad-supported or should Lycos be in the business of selling their software to other enterprises so that they could search the data on their computers? This interview is full of stories of successful entrepreneurs because Jerry Colonna has invested in or worked with some of the best of them.
As I listened to Jerry tell stories of the people he worked with, I kept noticing that the founders who made it big were building companies that were a part of who they were as people.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
invited him on Mixergy to talk about some of the game-changing ideas Oodle took on, like giving users analytics, partnering up with companies like Facebook and making classifieds social.
This is the latest post from Mixergy
Andrew: Alright let me rave a little bit on your behalf here are some of the things that I love about oodle we have seen in past interviews here on mixergy people Early in his career, Craig Donato worked for Excite, a pioneering search engine. When I asked him, "Why do you think Excite didn’t beat Yahoo?"
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
invited Heidi to Mixergy so we can learn how she builds relationships. also asked her about how she built T/Maker, a pioneering software company. Previously, she founded T/Maker, a pioneering software company which she sold to Deluxe Corporation, she worked for Apple as Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations, and she was the Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital.
The Harvard Business School Case Study on Heidi Roizen talks about the dinner parties she hosts for tech leaders like her personal friend, Bill Gates, and how people skills helped her build one of the most admired careers in Silicon Valley.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
He came to Mixergy to talk about why Varien grew (it had a lot to do with focus) and how the company launched Magento (his developers pushed him to do it).
Others on Mixergy have done the same thing, and you can too.
- MOST IMPORTANTLY: Do you think this story belongs in the Mixergy book ? Roy Rubin was a student trying to make extra money on the side when he founded Varien, the company that went on to launch Magento, an ecommerce platform that enables billions of dollars in online sales.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Co-founder Gregg Spiridellis came to Mixergy to tell you how he and his brother Evan built their company.
He and his friends were using off-the-shelf technology and software to produce content that, just five years earlier, would have cost big studios hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to create.
This is the story of two brothers who took on the established entertainment industry, succeeded for a while — and then almost went out of business when the dot com market crashed. And it’s the story of how they rebuilt their business and became one of the most
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
If you’re reading Mixergy, I know you routinely work hours that most people don’t know exist. Out of frustration that users weren’t installing Eric’s virtual add-on for instant messaging, he brought target users into his office and asked them to try his software. And we had this preconception like, “Oh, it’s a challenge to learn new software, and it’s tricky to move your friends over to the new Buddy List,” and all this other nonsense Imagine if you spent all that time building your business–plus risked your money–and customers hated what you built.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The business, 99designs, was co-founded by Matt Mickiewicz who came to Mixergy to teach what he learned over the past 16 months as he built this business.
So we took it a step further and created a “contests” tab on SitePoint and built some very, very basic software around the design contests idea, something that was hacked together in a few months time by one or two guys basically. At the end of the This is the story of an idea that started out as a series of conversations on message boards and quickly became a marketplace that facilitated $5 million in design work.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
99designs was co-founded by Matt Mickiewicz, who came to Mixergy to teach what he learned over the past 16 months as he built this business.
So we took it a step further and created a “contests” tab on SitePoint and built some very, very basic software around the design contests idea, something that was hacked together in a few months time by one or two guys basically. At the end of the day, any real business has to This is a story of an overnight success that was a few years in the making. 16 months ago, 99designs launched and quickly became a marketplace that
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
So why do hundreds of thousands of new subscribers happily sign up every year to pay Lynda.com a monthly fee to learn software like Excel and Photoshop? lot of Lynda's early traction came from teaching software that students couldn't learn elsewhere. Thanks to Mixergy viewer (and friend) Matt Alexander of WP Switch for helping with the editing of this video and writing the first draft of this post.
...Tags: The web is full of free how-to articles and videos. And, more importantly, what can YOU learn from Lynda.com's business about creating content
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Ben Huh came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money to buy a blog about LOL cats, called "I Can Has Cheezburger," and how he turned it into a growing publishing company that own over 20 sites, including Fail Blog and This is Photo Bomb. When Ben launches a site today, most of the technology behind is the same free software that's available to anybody. If you like this interview, vote for it on news.ycombinator.com --Andrew
His network has over 11 million users and 218 million monthly page views.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
invited Jimmy to Mixergy and I asked him to talk about the business side of his non-profit, Wikipedia. He was looking at the growth of the free software movement and I was seeing how communities of programmers were coming together online to create software. So the only possible change was really to just over throw the whole thing and install the wiki software and go in a much more simple way.
How did Jimmy Wales get the world to help him write an encyclopedia? And what could YOU learn from his experiences to help you build a business that leaves a legacy?
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
invited Heidi to Mixergy so we can learn how she builds relationships. also asked her about how she built T/Maker, a pioneering software company. Previously, she founded T/Maker, a pioneering software company which she sold to Deluxe Corporation, she worked for Apple as Vice President of World Wide Developer Relations, and she was the Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital.
The Harvard Business School Case Study on Heidi Roizen talks about the dinner parties she hosts for tech leaders like her personal friend, Bill Gates, and how people skills helped her build one of the most admired careers in Silicon Valley.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
He is a software engineer at heart and loves tinkering on the site to make it the best product possible. Before founding Goodreads, Otis was a Software Engineer and Product Manager at Tickle.com. Dave, I'm going to ask your question in a little bit when we get deeper into Goodreads, but if anyone else has questions like Dave does, just punch them into twitter with the word "mixergy" and I'll see them. Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew
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