http://www.aroxo.com/blog/mattr A how-to guide for entrepreneurs Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:26:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Off-shoing your web-development is a great way to save money and, if you are bootstrapping a small start-up, it could be the perfect strategy to hang on to more equity and delay financing. However off-shoring your development is also fraught with risks, it is far harder to manage your development ... http://www.aroxo.com/blog/mattr/index.php/2008/06/19/how-to-get-good-off-shore-developers-part-2/ I'm delighted to announce that on Monday May the 12th I became a father for the first time. Hallam Rogers was born in Kingston General Hospital at 2144. Both mother and baby are doing well. As you can see, he's already an Aroxo fan!  M. http://www.aroxo.com/blog/mattr/index.php/2008/06/16/personal-welcome-to-the-world-hallam-rogers/ A friend of mine mentioned something to me recently. He commented that a site he works with recently changed the text on their registration button from "Register here" to "Register for free" and, as a result, registrations shot up. That really blew me away. Clearly pretty small decisions can have an enormous ... http://www.aroxo.com/blog/mattr/index.php/2008/02/19/how-search-engine-spam-created-web-20-and-drove-the-social-revolution/ Aroxo recently turned a major corner in its development, we moved from closed functional testing to using real live alpha testers, people who'd never seen Aroxo before. Without doubt, this is one of the most revealing, painful, and valuable stages in creating your start-up, so I thought I'd blog about it. When ... http://www.aroxo.com/blog/mattr/index.php/2008/02/14/how-to-test-your-system-with-real-users/ A really effective way of boot-strapping your start-up is to off-shore and out-source your development. But doing this also carries risks, how can you be sure that you are going to get a developer who'll see it through and has the right experience? This post lays out an effective process ... http://www.aroxo.com/blog/mattr/index.php/2007/12/14/how-to-get-good-off-shore-developers-part-1/