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A Micropreneur's Perspective: Selling Physical Products vs.

Software By Rob

A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. I’m asked pretty regularly about the best way to start a physical product e-commerce site, or whether that’s a good way to get started selling online.

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Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound.

Software By Rob

“Front-End Developer&# Resume – Awesome. Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 | Software by… [.] Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. inch screen that slides out of a 17-inch screen). at 4:07 pm [.]

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. In nearly every failed startup, the real problem was that customersdidnt want the product. Probably because the product wasa dog, or never seemed likely to be done, or both.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

The conventional wisdom says a startup CEO should make way for a professional CEO once the company has achieved product-market fit. These innovations are product cycles. Professional CEOs are effective at maximizing, but not finding, product cycles. Innovator’s requirements – what does it take to find the product cycle?

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How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch

Software By Rob

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. of DotNetInvoice (my asp.net billing product) about 2 weeks ago. We launched version 2.5