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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies. Startups can do anything.

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. It can be even harder to develop the skills needed to not just survive in a startup, but to thrive. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses.

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“I hired a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app, this was my experience”

The Next Web

He lives in Central Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. Now that SantaDispatch is in the app store , I thought fellow entrepreneurs would be interested in what it was like to have an iPhone app developed through Elance. I mocked up the design in Photoshop, and posted on Reddit to find a developer. Nothing fancy.

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Digital Nomad Visa: Where to find the highest average salary?

Transformify

Switzerland has the highest cost of living in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Massachusetts, home to more than 110 universities and colleges including Harvard and MIT, has the highest average salary at $72,940 (£58,320). It's also renowned for its high salaries and expensive living costs.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

ReadWriteStart

Socioclean already has about 25,000 users, and has good interest from a dozen colleges and universities who want to offer white label solutions through their career development offices. Campus sales reps is a good strategy that Chris is experimenting with, as well as marketing to camp directors. I like these two strategies. Discuss.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. Yogesh already has 45 employers onboard, but while discussing his customer acquisition strategy it became clear that he needs to figure out some way to close sales by phone or online without personally traveling to close every sale.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." The second product is 10Screens, a tool to visualize business requirements critical to software development, which tend to be hampered by poor communication among various stakeholders. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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