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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

Is there a junior or senior developer from a previous gig who will respect you for a previous role and be ready to build their own baby with you? So, while you’re slaving away on your customer development while keeping an eye out for your technical match, you could do worse than read Paul Graham’s 2007 essay, How not to die.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. Focus on those core metrics and you should do fine.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. In fact, one of your own mods, told another customer to literally go f themselves. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said.

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