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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Your First Website

Up and Running

These don’t require coding skills—they’re usually visual templates that are easy to use but don’t allow for great customization (that would require technical skills). Custom development. This means hiring/contracting a freelance web developer or an agency to design and develop your site from start to finish.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Dear E, so good to come across this. I had wondered about your whereabouts :-).

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It would be a lot more efficient to send down a compressed packet with the entire sites data and presentation in an optimized format.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

This is lean development without any customer development. Hosting can be pushed to public clouds, authentication to OpenID or Facebook; services like Launchrock or Optimizely can help create a landing page. Creating quick buzz and social proof is not the same a developing long-term customer development, but it pays off.

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