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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.

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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. Startups don’t have access to the same resources or brand equity. ’ From the point of view of a SaaS consultant: before employing growth marketing strategies, you need to have: Identified your ideal customer.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? Initial developer: partner or hired? 1) Hire A’s.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). 2) The Biz Person (organization and equity person) who understands how to structure the company and raise capital. I don't think it's enough to have a business guy and a coder. 90% of entrepreneurs can not raise capital.