Startups

The aim of this group is:

to give members an opportunity to share their stories about building a website with Drupal for their startups
to create a space for those willing to learn more about Drupal and ways it can help online businesses
to foster a sense of entrepreneurship and, at the same time, offer technical guidance to those who may not be familiar with Drupal

Over time, it is hoped that this group will become an important part of the drupal community as more people come to learn Drupal for developing online businesses, be they ecommerce websites or social networks.

How we at Prometsource chose to use redmine to manage 100's of projects and 40+ developers

Posted by akucharski on April 11, 2013 at 8:09pm

I have given this talk at several camps and have been asked to put my slides up in this group

Here is the link to our slideshare: http://is.gd/uiRRrc

Here is the session description

Local News & Journalism

Posted by adriandahlin on January 24, 2013 at 5:32pm

Hey folks. I'm starting a local news website in my small city in Massachusetts. Has anyone out there tackled this space before? I'd love to pool some wisdom about news sites in Drupal. I'm thinking about starting a group for news & journalism. Let me know if you're interested.

Stuff I'm working with:
- News articles
- Blogging by several different contributors
- Ads, highly user-targeted
- Calendar of local events
- Forums
- Implementing canned themes, since I don't have CSS or PHP skills

Downtown Los Angeles Drupal Meetup at Sensis Agency and via WebEx on October 16, 2012

Posted by christefano on October 10, 2012 at 11:52pm

Start:

2012-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

chrisshattuck

Techivist

oseldman

WonderWoman

Stew-bee

christefano

Event url:

http://groups.drupal.org/dtla

The next general Downtown Los Angeles Drupal meetup is on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 and will be at Sensis Agency in Downtown Los Angeles. Those interested in attending this meetup remotely are welcome to join us via WebEx.

At this meetup, we're having our usual news and announcements, raffle prizes, a series of lightning talks, which are short, bite-sized presentations, and a featured presentation by Chris Shattuck (@Chris_Shattuck) on how Drupal is used at Build a Module.com, a video subscription website with nearly 800 videos on Drupal development, theming and site building.

Read the discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/260843#comments to see which presentation ideas are being discussed, or join the discussion and post your offers and requests for presentations!

Thank You to Our Sponsors!

Our venue and drinks sponsor is Sensis (@SensisAgency), a cross-cultural advertising agency with digital at its core. We got our start building websites and have expanded into a full service advertising agency, helping our clients take advantage of the fundamental changes taking place in the marketing world.

Our parking, video conferencing and raffle prize sponsor for this event is Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, consulting, development and training company with a team of Drupal experts in Los Angeles. We create fun websites, mobile apps, virtual worlds and e-commerce sites. Follow us at @LarksLA to learn more about our Drupal services and upcoming trainings.

This event is being organized with help from Droplabs (@Droplabs), a collaborative Drupal event and coworking space in Downtown Los Angeles. We're quickly gaining a reputation for being the only free coworking space around with a freemium business model: come work here for free and only pay for the extras, such as 24/7 access, equipment rental and a locker for your belongings.

DrupalCon presentations for startups at DrupalCon Munich

Posted by Iztok on August 2, 2012 at 12:18am

I just came across this group and I would like to update it with some sessions going on at DrupalCon Munich. I hope some of you guys and girls will be there since I would love to meet fellow entrepreneur in person.

Los Angeles Startup Weekend on July 20-22, 2012

Posted by christefano on July 3, 2012 at 10:00pm

Start:

2012-07-20 (All day) - 2012-07-22 (All day) America/Los_Angeles

Event url:

http://la.startupweekend.org/

Event Details

   Date: July 20-22, 2012
   Location: Coloft in Santa Monica, California
   Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3683750196

REGISTRATION BEGINS JULY 2nd AT NOON!!! Get to it, we sold out in only 10 minutes last time! Stoked!

About Startup Weekend

Using Drupal to Prototype a Start Up and course on learning Drupal

Posted by samcohen on May 15, 2012 at 2:52pm

Glad to find this group. In addition to being a Drupal web developer and trainer, I'm also working on my own start up, built on Drupal.

Last summer I participated in an incubator for social enterprise startups and there was a great deal of talk about the pros and cons of using Drupal for a tech startup, particularly comparing it Rails.

The one point I like to make is that even if Drupal isn't ideal for your startup once it scales, it's hard to find a better tool for building a working prototype.

Let's Launch Meeting Notes and Wiki

Posted by ruess on March 31, 2012 at 8:40pm
Last updated by erinclerico on Sat, 2012-03-31 22:20

Meeting Notes:
-MixerG.com: Utilizing Craigslist Manila for finding Drupal Developers
http://manila.craigslist.com.ph/

-Good discussion of off-shoring Drupal development: http://mearra.com/blogs/vesa-palmu/can-you-offshore-drupal-work

-Build a Drupal development environment on OS 10.6: http://mearra.com/blogs/vesa-palmu/how-setup-mac-os-x-106-drupal-environ...

-Find trade magazines for the niche you're focused in and write an article for it

-Inventor Organization to help with licensing good ideas: http://www.inventorsalliance.org/

-New Agenda format:

Finding part-time help for a start-up

Posted by bpriceless on March 30, 2012 at 3:59am

Trying to get a start-up company going based on a drupal web site. What is the best way to find part-time, work for equity, super smart developers? I know the web dev market is good for everyone right now, but aren't there a few techies still interested in the risk/reward of pre-funded start-ups? Help

Donate functionality for NGO

Posted by shenagarg on February 27, 2012 at 8:07am

I am building a website for NGO. I would like to have a page for donate which asks for credit card information just like https://www.habitat.org/cd/giving/donate.aspx?link=141 and preferably recurring donation.

I searched for modules and found paypal_donate module but it takes the user away from the website. I want the user to give the details of credit card on same webpage.

I am not aware of how to implement it but I think it needs SSL integration.

BR
Shena

getimage vs direct url from apache

Posted by jisri on February 8, 2012 at 5:05am

Assuming images gets re-sized when uploaded, why drupal uses getimage to include images and thumbs
if it is much faster to access the images directly through apache?
I always notice high cpu utilization when I load a page full of images.
How can I avoid this and include direct url to all my images?

thanks for any comments or suggestions.

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