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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling.

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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company?

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How to Pick a Partner Who Will Amplify Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling.

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Build a winning IP programme for successful innovation

NZ Entrepreneur

Resting on your laurels with IP strategy and not having an IP programme may result in missed opportunities and increased business risk. A professional sports team’s goal is to win matches. Winning one match often requires a different strategy from winning the next match. ANTON BLIJLEVENS IS A PRINCIPAL AT AJ PARK.

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Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design

crowdSPRING Blog

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. Today, we’ll review 10 web design marketing best practices and tips for restaurant web design.

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The Code is your Enemy

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You’re a builder, a creator — whether a back-end programmer, a Linux hacker, a Javascript ninja, a UX magician, a designer. Most startups fail, despite excellent coding and/or design skills. You’ll also do coding and design and that’s fine of course. You make stuff. So solve that hard problem now.