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

www.quora.com

" => 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?" Avdi Grimm , Been doing web development in Ruby on. Another great place is hackathons.

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Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster-part 3 of 3 of Bigger in Bend

Steve Blank

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Local Early-Stage Risk Capital. Early stage venture funds are more important than your mother. Organize risk-capital in the form of angel funds or venture funds, particularly at the early stage where the largest capital gap exists.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. Looking forward to reading your next post!

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Like most microfunds, JumpStart Foundry (JSF) has focused on very early-stage concepts. Program Content : "Lean Startup / Customer Development in practice. The goal was to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Ruby Toolbox. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages.