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How to Start a Small Web Design Firm

Up and Running

For web designers, transitioning from working full-time for someone else to freelancing has some perks, like being your own boss and having a more flexible work schedule. While you may envision running an agency full of designers in the future, you’ll probably begin your journey as an independent (solo) freelancer.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Twitter Link Roundup #166 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link]. 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link].

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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

If you read Marco from Instapaper, you see that what makes Instapaper great isn’t the technology and his ability to write code, but his thoughtfulness around design. He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. This is where product and design leads come into play.

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A Framework for Web Analytics

www.jonsamsel.com

Jon Samsel Social media, SEO, marketing and writing Home Bio Books Portfolio Login A Framework for Web Analytics On May 10, 2011, Heardable’s CEO, Jon Samsel, was asked to speak at the Jamba Juice Digital Marketing Summit in Emeryville, California. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 startupcto

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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

I like the Kanban board design for project management, which makes it easy to organize tasks by what stage of completion they’re in. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. While Flipboard can also serve as a solid RSS reader, Feedly excels at skimming through tons of content and surfacing interesting content quickly.”

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

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 need to provide RSS? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? Which devices? Dismissable?

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