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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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Fortunately, there are a number of examples of successful founding teams that met outside of school. Sean and Shawn from Napster met in an IRC channel. Cisco was a husband and wife team. Honestly assess your own strengths and weaknesses thoroughly. Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal.