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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

Ask early candidates how they differentiate themselves from their peers. Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations.

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Ask early candidates how they differentiate themselves from their peers. Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations.

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A Brief Intro to Domain Driven Design

Austin Startup

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Include differentiators in your plan, even if you’re not sure you will ever build them. Do you need to differentiate more? at 4:52 am @Blain- I don’t think so… I’m saying don’t do Freemium unless the free offering adds value or differentiates your premium offering- not as marketing. #61