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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Which devices?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Which devices?

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Los Angeles Web Developer

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Here were some of his particular issues: Most of the firms that come up are actually website design firms not website development firms. Web design typically refers to the process of interface design and graphic design. The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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They have a related post: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs , but I think that looking at my Startup Metrics post provides a bit broader set of metrics to consider. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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Not Betting on Flash

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Reality is that we need that now, but at least we don't need to specifically design for it for now. Instead I'm betting on HTML/JavaScript. Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? That's my bet. I'm not betting that Flash is dead in five years. I'm hedging by NOT betting on Flash.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

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Questions to Spark Design Discussions Some interesting questions to ask about the user interface beyond the web site: What parts of your product can be effectively accomplished in the other user interface? By asking these questions, almost invariably we begin to see the product design in a bit different way….

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

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It's a comprehensive program with national sales training, HTML emails, a very cool interactive Flash landing page about the 8 ways to save, brochure and presentation for the sales people, extending reach via social media, etc. Not one of these ways is low rates. It launches November 16.