Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Clearly define how our product benefits the customer (our unique value proposition): If the visitor to your service doesn't understand exactly what the value is to them and why they should use you then they'll hit the back button. In one sentence, you should clearly define your unique value proposition for the type of customer you want.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. Do you have time to manually find matches? How hard is it to find matches on either side?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

As I discussed in Matching Algorithm , I end up talking to a lot of startups who want to become the eHarmony of careers, eHarmony of clothes, eHarmony of jobs, eHarmony of tutoring, eHarmony of services, eHarmony of investments, etc. Do you have time to manually find matches? How hard is it to find matches on either side?

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

August 20, 2011 by Lauren Drell 1 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right?

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? In the era of social networking, there are tons of sites dedicated to matching qualified applicants with the right employers, including Startupers , VentureLoop and Startuply.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Personal Network: Ask your friends and colleagues for suggestions. Send them a note about what you are looking for and ask them to pass it around to their network. This extends to your online social networks too – don’t be afraid to Tweet out what you are looking for.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

and more," which the long-time readers already know I think is dumb , and their " About Us " copy is similarly useless: "We’ve embarked on an exciting quest to let even more people realize the tremendous potential of social networks as a real-time information platforms.". Bootstrapped companies have no such luxury. Oh happy day!

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. It was anti-social in nature. While Topshop have opened in Nordstrom.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

How does that compare versus doing something like bootstrapping or something like that? Bootstrapping comes a little bit later, where this idea of throwing your own money into the mix, making it happen yourself is important. Then the system will match you with mentors who say they have expertise in those places.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, I got a pitch from a company providing a kind of “last mile” for computer vision—an always-on human network that would take images that computers couldn’t identify, and spit back whether or not a roof tile was broken or if a signature matched. More advertisers will feel comfortable spending money on it.

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