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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I’m putting myself in the same boat now with the solution I’m developing so could you tell me: 1. But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. make for not putting customer development before writing code.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Are the logistics manageable?

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. Years ago, Six Apart invited me to be a part of some kind of developers program without telling me what it is. What folks should remember is that an NDA is just another contract whose terms may be negotiated.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice.

www.humbledmba.com

I had taken classes on IP, first-mover advantage, etc. If we werent careful about this, our IP claims would be worthless. Ill help with product development ideas, offer feedback, make intros to investors (if I would myself invest.)--anything I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. But what was really going on?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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