I like to see once in a while a web company that does things differently. They didn’t take any outside funding, they didn’t spend any time on financial projections or market studies, they didn’t chose the fashionable technology of the day (LavaBlast use .NET instead of your typical Ruby on Rails or Python framework), they didn’t spend time coming to our hyped camps, breakfasts and conferences, and actually shipped a product (and got solid revenues) within a year… Source: LavaBlast’s story, or how two students created a successful software company from scratch | Montreal Tech Watch

I suggest, very strongly, that you read all three parts of the LavaBlast story–part 1 – part 2 – part 3–and think about how you and your teams work together.  What technologies are you deploying?  What are you building on top of?  Is it the language du jour or is it something that you are really comfortable with?

I’m reminded of ThoughtFarmer, they didn’t develop their Intranet system on PHP and MySQL, they used Microsoft as their platform.  Why?  Because that’s what their prospective market uses.

Kudos to LavaBlast.  Now, let’s see if we can do it again.

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LavaBlast: building on a shoestring, delivering, and earning revenue. We can learn a thing or two.