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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Sometimes that’s product design so thrilling that every customer spreads the word to five more. Find and focus on one reliable distribution mechanism before diluting your time diversifying. You still have to get the first customers, and most of the rest, yourself. Does this contradict the rest of this page?

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16 Crucial Website Design Factors That Help Your Small Business Increase Customers and Profits

crowdSPRING Blog

Over the last decade, crowdspring and our 210,000+ designers have helped entrepreneurs, small businesses, agencies and Brands around the world with website design. Design matters. Good design is good business. It might seem obvious, but it’s important not to underestimate how important good visual design is.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. But over-optimizing for dilution is a bad attribute relative to focusing on creating a big & winning company. Think YouTube vs. the rest. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. Bill’s a huge believer in MVP.

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Why you probably don’t need an API strategy

The Next Web

Instead, most companies should be focusing on their core business and then designing APIs that support larger strategy. In the early days of the Netflix API when the program was targeted exclusively to public developers, the API had its own metrics and its own objectives, all of which were designed to support the primary goals of the company.

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How to Keep Your Business From Running Your Life

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently, I completed a new book, “ Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself ,” by Mike Michalowicz, that really helped me pull my own thoughts and recommendations together for the beleaguered business owners I try to help. Make sure you focus your design efforts on this area, and delegate or cut time spent on all the rest.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand.

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The Top Nine Challenges Of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business And How To Tackle Them

YoungUpstarts

And if you’re one of these brave souls — pouring your blood, sweat, and tears into running your own business — there’s no time for rest. I recently studied 54 high-growth entrepreneurial companies based in 23 different states, all of which were designated as successful growth companies by leading magazines or accounting firms.