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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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11 Trends in Web Logo Design

mashable.com

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. See also: Wet floor effect.

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11 Trends in Web Logo Design

mashable.com

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Dev & Design Mashable on Facebook Join Us! Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Learn more here. See also: Wet floor effect.

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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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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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How To Be More Persuasive On Your Website

YoungUpstarts

Social persuasion isn’t new – websites have promoted their websites on Facebook and Twitter for years now. Their attempts have mainly been aimed at promoting existing websites, though. Making social persuasion a part of the very way a website is designed is a more recent idea. Place customer testimonials wisely.

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How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud

mashable.com

How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud. That is where a web API comes in. Just as the power of crowds has populated the social content repositories of Web 2.0 — YouTube videos, Facebook updates, tweets, and more — the web API enables designers and developers to re-purpose the body of knowledge that is the cloud.

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