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“When there is pain in America, we see more volume.” Crisis Text Line, Tech & Trump.

Hunter Walker

That’s normal in customer feedback land—but these messages were all personal, asking for helping with personal crisis like bullying or crystal meth. Lots of people talk about founders—and founding tech teams (or, more likely, individuals) don’t get the love they deserve. When there is pain in America, we see more volume.

America 83
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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

The best sellers can sell to customers, partners, investors, and employees. Engineer heavy startups are common now, so doubling or tripling your development team at the outset is incredible. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. Read some fun reviews of this site.

Cofounder 101
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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

blog.expensify.com

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. The rest of us have some fine dining to enjoy.

Java 107