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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks for Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

Instead, I relied on agility and adaptability. As the CEO of a tech startup, complex problems are a daily occurrence. Thanks to Jared Floyd, Ajax Creative ! #23- #13- Staying nimble and pivoting when necessary Photo Credit: Michael E. The bigger and more long-term the challenge, the more motivated I am.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Experience with Startups!

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

The team was demoing their AJAX-powered map solution, the first of its kind, to senior management at Google. Yet startups rely on collective learning in order to find their way. I believe this is one reason why the myth of the dictatorial startup founder has such enduring appeal. The latter is actually more dangerous.

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How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. A Word on AJAX You seemingly can’t launch a new web site these days without using a few dollops of AJAX here and there. However, you can’t incorporate AJAX into your mock-up, as there’s no functionality.

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HOW TO: Sign Up Users Even Before You Launch Your Startup

mashable.com

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. In the startup world, this itself perhaps isn’t uncommon, but what made Kohort’s story unique is the fact that those thousands of users had no idea what Kohort was when they signed up. Here are four tricks startups have used to make it happen.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

mashable.com

Discovery by social and webapp html5 is more agile and less icon-find-item-search. Have an account?

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

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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