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Dual Founders Manage Technology Startups Better

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Ask early candidates how they differentiate themselves from their peers. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Non-Technical Entrepreneurs Need the Right Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation. Ask early candidates how they differentiate themselves from their peers. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers.

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Twitter Link Roundup #123 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link] 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. Competitive Differentiation that Matters – [link]. 7 Rules for Bootstrapping a Business – [link]. How anyone can create a successful online business for next to nothing (Part III) – [link].

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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Microsoft became obsessed with COM, OLE and felt that it was the future of software development. Spolsky: The era of software was a narrow period of time.