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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. HipChat : ”The dev team uses HipChat pretty extensively for chatting, both one-on-one and group. ” -Evan Coonrod, LivePlan Developer. For Operations.

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9 insider tips for promoting your app

The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

So you’ve developed your dream app and uploaded it to the market, eagerly waiting for a flood of downloads to propel your product to stardom. But despite announcing it on your Facebook page and getting some positive reviews, you can’t seem to get past 50 downloads a day. The first time you see an article about the app, it’s nice.

PR

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part Two)

OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur. Stage 2: Develop Concept.

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part One)

OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

We get to read articles on Bplans all day and pretty much comment on them. The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. The article is Ten Things The Bank Will Ask You When You Need A Business Loan. John: PR wants some event calendar. We’re out here.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Very well written article. What is customer development? This is a common mistake.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

It seems like one of the advantages of all the hue and cry out there in the public discussion is that you actually have to work to keep up the conversation – so we can control it somewhat simply by being quiet about certain aspects of things and not being PR hounds at a given point in time. Great post!

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

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET This is probably the stupidest article I’ve read today, and I thought Scoble was going to bring home the prize, but nope. Matt Sherman.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. You can Google ideas and see what the autocomplete dishes out, ask your friends (also a great resource for foreign language keywords), research your competitors’ keywords, scan your AppStore reviews for hints, or my favorite – use Twitter. Next: A one-woman PR team.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

First read my short “ Version Infinity ” article. They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. so any further advice is appreciated.