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Selecting a Web Development Company

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Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? You will find firms that are design/interface heavy and light on development. Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. Or are you starting from scratch?

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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When I do a quick mental query of headcount across our entire portfolio of ~30 companies, I think at least 50% and maybe as much as 60% of the entire headcount of our portfolio is in either product or engineering. This is a great configuration for a starting team.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

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Why you have to design products for how your customers are , and not how you want them to be. Six Slides - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 23, 2010 The CEO of one of our portfolio companies is working on a fundraising deck and asked me for some tips. Your remote control has two buttons. Which button do you press?

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. Of the 8 founders at the dinner, half of them had a design/ui/ux background. If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six minutes to watch this. Kudos to John for an excellent pitch. Developer.

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