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Twitter Link Roundup #158 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link]. Vision | Jordan Cooper’s Blog – [link]. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link]. Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link]. Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link]. Losers exist. Losers exist.

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Some Thoughts on Hiring Technical Co-Founders

Rob Go

I reblogged an awesome post last week about how non-technical founders need to step thinking about “finding” a technical co-founder and “earning” a technical co-founder. Too much time to spent focused on the TECHNICAL and not enough on the CO-FOUNDER.

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SXSW Startups: Pawame Powers Africa

Austin Startup

Our Chairman and co-founder Alex Allegue pitched Pawame in the global finals of last year’s Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, Pawame having already won the Africa category. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. The founders?—?Alex

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

What key hires do you need? A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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What to Make of Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns?

Both Sides of the Table

Rolf Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z’s returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” to “Jeez — they sure are hiring a ton of staff. to “How can we hire more staff to keep up with the services they offer?” Simple: it is value-added for both entrepreneur and co-investor.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

What key hires do you need? A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenters: Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse) and Paul Lundahl (Creative Director, Mightyverse). Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. First, do not hire someone just because they have the domain expertise.

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