Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Understanding and the Meaning of Color Within Design – [link]. SEO and logo designers – [link]. SEO and logo designers – [link]. We’re all in this together.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. customer segments, such as users and payers or moms or teens. Testing Hypotheses.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. that businesses normally pay to the government.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

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. Try Google. Beware, however!

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. From "Think and Grow Rich".

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How One Startup Grew a $100M Business Without Spending Venture Capital | Forbes – [link]. Single User Utility In A Social System (by Fred Wilson) – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit. Something else?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The above image is a banner ad designed by someone in five minutes using Microsoft Paint. More Than Half of Small-Business Owners Go Without Pay – [link].

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ask your existing users this question via a survey. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. I’m studying design. Should I require and NDA? Then launch.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Sea Jr , Hyliker Cheung , Safak Ozkan , Kah Hong Tay , Eli James , Dan Hvidding , Yariv Sadan , Anon User, Marc Kwiatkowski , Elliot Kolt , Jonathan Joseph , Senad Dizdar , Yoann Padioleau , Ray C. 5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Theres nothing about knowing how toprogram that prevents hackers from understanding users, or aboutnot knowing how to program that magically enables business people to understand them. Thats nonsense. Well, it doesnt.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The approach involves going to a source of (often public) data and finding out how many X’s there are in the world, where X is your target consumer…be it a barber shop, web design firm or male under the age of 34. This provides the most accurate results for people using that search engine. Bad news for you.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Today, for hardware and software it’s consumers – specifically consumer Internet companies – that are the drivers of innovation. When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong.

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