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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. Ideas alone are not worth a lot.

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How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code

The Next Web

Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. This post was originally published on OnStartups.

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Ego Metrics: What Measurements Matter?

Duct Tape Marketing

Revenue matters to e-commerce companies. Revenue, profit, growth, and headcount are the main ways to measure the size of a company, so of course they are relevant. For businesses, you can show off those marketing metrics with social media widgets. So what metrics really matter? Leads matter for lead generation sites.

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

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Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. So we actually got in touch with them through an Intercom widget, asking a simple question of how do we get on the homepage. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter.

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Lean Analytics: The Best Numbers for Non-Tech Companies

Startup Lessons Learned

Alistair and Ben, co-authors of the book Lean Analytics, will help you sort it out in our next webcast, Lean Analytics for Non-tech Companies. In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. Alistair: There are plenty.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

We often talk about online conversion optimization without mentioning that many businesses, especially B2B, rely on offline sales to produce revenue. Sales enablement is the act of enabling salespeople to help them close more deals/bring in more revenue/hit their quota. Example of how a live chat widget works with a regular document.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Others, such as Loosecubes, are looking for a more consistent stream of revenue by switching to a subscription-based model. Find free office space at Loosecubes.