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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g.

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Breaking The VC Business Model For Next-Gen Investors

YoungUpstarts

My personal policy is to get the idea going, make it sustainable, hire passionate and experienced managers to take my place, then move on to the next challenge. Five Mill has managed over $100 million in online marketing spend and over $3 million monthly.

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Why Governments Don’t Get Startups

Steve Blank

On the California coast where I live, we see lifestyle entrepreneurs like surfers and divers who own small surf or dive shop or teach surfing and diving lessons to pay the bills so they can surf and dive some more. Lifestyle Startups: Work to Live their Passion. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Most are barely profitable.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. And it’s a combined product management and technical function, to boost an already positive growth curve into something even bigger.” (via Startups are designed for astronomical growth. via AndrewChen.co). via TechCrunch).

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. Title Range (%).

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

He looks for artists in their craft programmers, graphic designers and UI folks (tends not to do hardware). For a team, there’s a lot of effort required to keep people on the same page, so for any company you need a really clear sense of your mission that is understood by everyone (from the CEO to the coders).

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The Pros and Cons of IT Outsourcing: Globally, Nationally and Locally

ReadWriteStart

My company, GrowBiz Media , has outsourced Web design and development, both internationally and locally. When most people think of outsourcing, they envision coders in Southeast Asia working into the wee hours of (our) night. Should you outsource locally, nationally or internationally? Outsourcing Locally.