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• What would you say is the effect on the enterprise? How should the IT manager view this development?

  4 days ago by alexhwilliams

  in Google Chrome OS – it’s a great time to be a web developer

• That's a great point, Jeff, and your story of funding the early development of Appcelerator with "customer funding" is very similar to how we got going at N2 Broadband in 2000/2001...

  1 week ago by wayt

  in How to fund your startup from customers

• Great post Jeff. I did it exactly that way, built something that customers wanted, funded it with revenue (GASP) from paying customers! My question though is, is it limiting to start a business...

  2 weeks ago by Jeff Hilimire

  in How to fund your startup from customers

• I agree - sage wisdom. Bootstrapping by getting a customer to pay for what you're selling (or to invest in you outright) is far better (and often much faster) than raising outside capital. Good...

  3 weeks ago by sburkett

  in How to fund your startup from customers

• Because they have Steve Jobs and Google stuck in their head, and when they hear our leaders at Georgia Tech say "good companies can raise money in Atlanta" they think, "We're a...

  3 weeks ago by rjurney

  in How to fund your startup from customers