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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

by Zain Jaffer, serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Zain Ventures. Conduct a post-action review. If the company has employees, by implicating the entire team, each member can obtain a clear view of the process and contribute to future fixes and enhancements. Assess both the short- and long-term financial impact.

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How to pick a co-founder

venturehacks.com

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. One founder companies can work, against the odds (hello, Mark Zuckerberg).

Cofounder 101
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Be Your First Customer: Why Beta Testing Is Right for You

YoungUpstarts

by Sam Bahreini, co-founder and COO of VoloForce. Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. The feedback gathered during beta testing can provide a direction for future updates or versions of your product, which can cut costs down the line and improve the turnaround time for your development team.

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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. It’s disruptive, and for founders, very frustrating to watch. You need to build trust between these teams. Phil Chen , Givit.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors. Personal authority.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Even less-obvious founders like the internet media personality and Digg founder Kevin Rose actually began in computer science. In the cases of all the founders I just mentioned the answer was yes. This is better than hiring for a number of reasons: Hiring a good developer is not cheap.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. American VCs are critical.