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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. It’s someone of incredibly high intelligence, energy, and integrity. Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Date first. Mar 2, 2010 [.]

Cofounder 101
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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. Premature Scaling The Product Development model leads Sales and Marketing to believe that by first customer ship, come hell or high water, they need fully staffed organizations leads to another disaster: premature scaling.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Two thirds of outsourced projects fail, so there is a high likelihood of failure. We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). Bootstrapping is a potentially very exciting prospect to an entrepreneur.

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The Software Product Myth

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! tags: startups) [.] #32 In high-tech we are notorious for building stuff because we CAN, not because we SHOULD. 10 Rob on 11.19.08 32 Jim Foxworthy on 01.14.09

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

At some point I just said, “screw it, I’ll get a high paying job.” So just forget everything else and focus on what matters – getting an alpha of your product out the door and into the hands of your friends and family. Just finished Alpha and going into an invite only Beta. I think I just really feared working for the Man.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

Less significant is that ABTasty has no Bayesian-style stats to address alpha inflation caused by peaking at running tests. High-value accounts are rumored to get more attention, the rest are purported to get little to none. Canvas , by GrowthHackers, helps support the whole growth process (including archiving results).

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Sometimes non-programmers arent very good at anticipating where there might be problems, so it makes sense to give a very high-level overview of what you expect to happen after the first milestone, and the programmer will know if any follow-up is necessary. David Hooper (2010-06-19) # [link] is another great place to find programmers.