What does it take to get an idea off and running and successful in this Internet and economic climate?
Ultra Light Startups (ULS) is a group of entrepreneurs who explore these perpetually evolving factors and refine techniques to launch technology ventures - minimizing cost and time associated with testing ideas in the marketplace.
In contribution to ULS we have commenced an investigation and a working group The Ultra Light Startup Hackathon. The purpose is to take a group of like minded professionals and in one day, move and idea from paper to deployment. The goal is to have fun, to be Ultra Light, and to produce a working and usable web application in one day.
To make this possible, will take a known design from the ULS Spec Review Group and then implement and produce a result. We also want this approach to be open for people to come and watch, learn and do a post-analysis critique.
The first announcement as made on 6th November at Ultra Light SEO/SEM. Stay tuned for updates.
As part of our involvement with Ultra Light Startups 42SQL provided some free technical input to a new project Real Women Respond to Palin.
As a checklist, the following online resources were used to get started, and create an initial web presence. This provides a good summary of how to get started with just $20.
- Google Mail email account (initial registration communications).
- Domain Registrar for registration of the domain name (~ $10). Our recommendation is GoDaddy.
- Shared Hosting Provider for initial website hosting (~ $10).
- Google Apps the free edition, for email hosting.
- Google Analytics for website tracking.
- WordPress Blogging framework for Content delivery.
The following are more optional but were used in this instance.
- FeedBurner for a public RSS feed and statistics.
- Magnify for a public video community library.
- Ustream for live video streaming.
- PayPal for sponsor donations.
Some of these options are not ideal for the longer term, but for Day 1, a presence can be achieved for little work.
Disclaimer: 42SQL does not have any political associations, bias or opinions to the current US Presidential Election.
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Two of our consulting packages are listed within the MySQL Product Directory, our Business Assurance Package and Health Check. For more information on all 42SQL services, see our Consulting options.
Ronald Bradford of 42SQL was one of the panel speakers at A Panel on Cloud Computing chaired by Murat Aktihanoglu of Unype held July 29th in New York. Other panelists included Mike Nolet - AppNexus, Jamal Mazhar - Kaavo, Hans Zaunere - New York PHP, Hank Williams - KloudShare (stealth - see Hank’s excellent blog) and Geir Magnusson - 10gen.
With four providers of varying services in the cloud space, and two independent industry experts and observers, the questions and discussions provided for a great amount of useful information.
Keywords that met with active communication included Infrastructure as a Services, Tools as a Service, Platform as a Service, Data Security, Data Consistency, Standards - creation and adoption, Open Source - is it important, Latency, Economics of Scale. Even Microsoft, Assembly Language and Cobol didn’t escape the evening.
One memorable quote was “When your tools change, what solutions can you now provide?”
Drizzle is a new lightweight SQL database for the Web and Cloud that comes from a fork of the MySQL database.
With an active community and contribution list from several companies and individuals, 42SQL is proud to host and support the Drizzle Master BuildBot.
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