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Dan Shipper is a student from the University of Pennsylvania who has created the popular webapps WhereMyFriends.be, ReadStream and DomainPolish. We invited Dan to have a chat on The Startup Project to share his story, and to offer some great advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.
Naming Your Product – The BugSense Interview
Bugsense is a tool for developers which collects and analyzes crash reports from mobile applications on Android and iOS. It provides developers with v ...
Stay inspired, not on auto-pilot – An interview with Fantastical’s Founder
Fantastical is an all new calendar for Mac, which works as a (beautiful) front end for iCal, Outlook or Entourage. It offers one of the most well desi ...
How changing the name of my webapp quadrupled signups.
The name of a product often means a lot more than many people realize: it plays a major role in determining both the quantity of media coverage that t ...
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How my startup launched to 50,000 daily pageviews with just a few emails.
June 11, 2011, 6 CommentsThe launch of any startup is often the most important factor in determining the success of the product in the short-term, and consequently it's vital that it is done successfully. Today we are sharing the story of a Windows software develop ...
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How I doubled the price of my software product – and sold ten times as many copies.
June 10, 2011, 44 CommentsDecreasing the price of your software product doesn't necessarily mean you will sell more copies, and increasing the price certainly doesn't mean you will sell less: today we are sharing the story of a Windows software developer who, by inc ...
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“Don’t start a company simply for the sake of starting one” – The Posterous Interview
June 3, 2011, 6 CommentsPosterous is a Y Combinator startup that launched in mid-2008, and has since grown into one of the most successful and widely-used blogging platforms. To share the Posterous story with us, and to offer his advice on launching and running a ...
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An email client that achieved 20,000 downloads in a day: The Sparrow story
April 11, 2011, 8 CommentsSparrow is a new email client for OSX that has taken the Mac world by storm: it was downloaded over 20,000 times on launch day, and has been downloaded 100,000 times since the Mac App Store launched in January. To hear the background story ...
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Why Gumroad is the next billion dollar startup – The developer interview
April 6, 2011, 6 CommentsGumroad launched this week to a huge amount of interest from consumers and from the media. The startup is basically a service which lets users buy and sell digital goods with no hassle and minimal effort. Whether you're selling design templ ...
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A practice run that made it big – the Wunderlist story
March 30, 2011, 11 CommentsWe recently checked out Wunderlist, a fantastic new to-do application for a range of platforms which has quite literally risen to the top in the industry. To tell us the background story on Wunderlist, we invited the founder of 6Wunderkinde ...
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