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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Transcript of The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community

Duct Tape Marketing

We came together in 2010. As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We weren’t trying to have a client type business. That was a company founded by Brian Gardener who is a principle here in Rainmaker Digital.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

The Complete Guide to Registering Your Business Name. How do you get the funds to start your business? You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. On the one hand, bootstrapping your business gives you much more control over it.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

[link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. Kellie This couldn’t have come at a better time… I’m about to step into that small business selfemployment arena. From Nothing To Something.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

14 Comments • Nov 15, 2010 +1 for use of Platonic. D Craig Montuori • Nov 15, 2010 My original comment (asked as an answer): Well written, good points. Anon User • Nov 15, 2010 Ryan another thing you can do if you like is to vote up this answer, which will also show your endorsement of it.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Small Business tools list. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. small business CRM.