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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

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Why it’s great: Springwise is a great website to promote your app or software. They have a huge following of app and software developers, so you’ll surely get some great exposure. Since its founding in 2008, the site has been committed to inspiring, educating, and featuring the doers of the world. Best of all.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team. Beware, however!

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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. In hindsight, it’s understandable that friends and family were skeptical when we told them about our business. After several meetings with the developer, I was ready to get moving on it.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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While I spent the past three incredibly fulfilling and fun years helping build the tech entrepreneurship sector in NYC, which is now thriving wonderfully (but wasn’t in 2008!), Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

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If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience.

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Building a sweat equity team

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Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. I intend to rewrite my internal 50-page business plan into an investors proposal. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer. Refine your elevator pitch.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. But when it comes to the specific of a product release, business plan, or marketing launch, all that matters is: do we have a strong hypothesis that will enable us to learn?