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Women 2.0 ยป FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

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The maker/manager transition phase

joel.is

Subscribe with RSS 2,164 subscribers. The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). Im the founder of Buffer. This is where I share all the lessons Im learning. Join 2,164 other hackers & hustlers who read my articles via email.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app.

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

maplebutter.com

have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if youโ€™re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. Subscribe via RSS. A few nuggets.