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Rocket Science 5: Who Needs Domain Experts

Steve Blank

The Search for the Black Swan What keeps founders and their investors going is the the dream/belief that your startup will be the Black Swan – a company that breaks all the obvious rules, ignores tradition and does something unique and spectacular and with a result that is unpredicted and financial returns that are breathtaking.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

We stood on a platform several stories up and light streamed diagonally through windows set high on top of the building cutting through the black soot particles created when the incandescent steel hit the bucket. Great founders live for these moments. I coach agile teams for a living, and I do most of my work with start-ups.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. Most PHP scripts are not long-lived, meaning that every object has to be constructed, used, and disposed for every request. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Steep learning curve to do the things that matter most. Browserling offers live interaction, web-based browser testing. BrowserStack is a live, web-based browser testing tool.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

I’m sure some of you are thinking “that’s all great – but I live in the middle of nowhere and none of those resources are available to me.&# There are many examples, Zuckerberg, Gurbaksh Chahal and many many more, also you have already thrown light over this matter on this in your first post. Union is strength!

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Was it the case that sans serif fonts were more legible, or was it just a matter of taste? In black and white: an r&d report on typography and legibility. Serifs slow RSVP reading at very small sizes, but don”t matter at larger sizes. Introduction. Understanding interfaces: A Handbook of human-computer interaction.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

If you have a great app that is easy and intuitive to use, it doesnt really matter what it looks like (e.g., When I was working on the initial specifications for Spymaster, for example, aesthetics really mattered. Benedetto swears by basic black (classy!), For certain apps, said Bond, design is everything. Bonus round!

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