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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". WhenBusy is a bootstrapped startup that lets people schedule meetings with you in currently-available time-slots without you having to share your calendar [disclosure: I'm an advisor].

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

ReadWriteStart

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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TEDx Bay Area Women, quick fire talks

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Some folks whom I met: Debra Bowen, Secretary of State of California. President of The Tech Museum. Founder of JackCards.com. Senior (Health) Benefits Consultant. Check out the tweets here.

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Uncommon Interview: Bob Walsh, Digital Entrepreneur

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Between the various things I’ve been doing and my own efforts I started noticing just how much time in this business goes into context work — all of the stuff besides the core of what your are building — and how hard it is, how much you have to sacrifice, especially if you are bootstrapping.

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Twitter Link Roundup #50 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Interesting perspective on why New York City could never compete in tech – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable & Proud: Github – [link]. The Key to Non-Profit Website #Design : An Attempt for a Cause – [link]. Lessons from working for startups – [link]. 40 Cool Paper Toys Samples – [link].

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My Podcast Launches Today: “Startups for the Rest of Us”

Software By Rob

Our goal is to help non-venture-backed, bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. My new podcast launches today. It’s called Startups for the Rest of Us. My co-host is Mike Taber, the guy behind SingleFounder.com.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.