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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Do you fix bugs before writing code? Please leave feedback!)

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). How much money will airlines companies, hotel companies or event companies pay me as a referral or for booking?

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? What about appealing to a certain lifestyle category? eczema lotion.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

This post will outline the entire process, giving code examples, data analysis examples, survey questions—the whole thing. ” The first mention of personas was in Alan Cooper’s 1991 book, The Inmates are Running the Asylum. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc.,

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The 90-Day CMO and Cross-Channel Acquisition Strategies That Scale

Duct Tape Marketing

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! That can then be distributed through owned, earned, and paid, right? We're doing a lot more book funnels. I'm actually seeing a lot more traction coming from like a well written book nowadays. Go to desk team 360 dot info and book your call today. That's right.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

This post will outline the entire process, giving code examples, data analysis examples, survey questions – the whole thing. The first mention of personas was in Alan Cooper’s 1991 book, “The Inmates are Running the Asylum.” They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., plot(pcanalysis).

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

www.cscyphers.com

Not only are there rafts and rafts of books to help someone cobble together a rudimentary business plan, any quality VC values execution over ideas. But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. Mired In Code. Technology Review.