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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

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Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. How do you use LinkedIn?

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools. PM OK, agree.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities). Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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Next Generation Business Models Because a number of smart entrepreneurs realized the importance of lowering CAC, they created new business models such as Open Source, SaaS, Freemium, etc. Extensive use of software to automate all processes such as SEO, SEM, social networking, lead scoring, lead nurturing, CRM, etc.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Likewise, Android developers that want to target the upcoming wave of Honeycomb tablets will need to create variations of their apps for the different device types. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools. and it uses PhoneGap, Adobe Air, Sass and the quooxdoo JavaScript framework.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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