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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. The key to choosing an app developer is research. Here are four critical questions to ask both yourself and an app developer before making the decision to engage them to design and deliver your app. The apps they have built.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital. The result?

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

First, the ease at which developers can get started working with AI models is starting to lead to a Cambrian explosion of products and applications that leverage this technology. This is not dissimilar to the explosion of applications we saw in the mid-2000’s fueled by declining computing costs, cloud infrastructure, and social platforms.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. If I’ve already bought the cup for that visit, the cost to refill that cup (for them) is roughly $0.64

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. These costs are largely fixed. This article was first posted in The Financialist.].

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. If I’ve already bought the cup for that visit, the cost to refill that cup (for them) is roughly $0.64

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