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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

Every business person with a dollar and a dream these days thinks they’re a technical co-founder away from interweb stardom. If you read Marco from Instapaper, you see that what makes Instapaper great isn’t the technology and his ability to write code, but his thoughtfulness around design. It just works.

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Making Web Design Easier With Duda

Duct Tape Marketing

Making Web Design Easier With Duda written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Iati is the C o-founder and CEO of Duda – a website development platform used by thousands of agencies around the world to build sites for their customers. Marketing Podcast with Itai Sadan. Questions I Ask Itai Sadan. [0:52]

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

This event focused on relationship building and a lot of work was put into building curated groups to have fruitful round table discussions. More networking and curated roundtables, less gurus and swag. We arranged vetted and curated groups for roundtable discussions , and matched everyone with other like-minded people.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

Both Sides of the Table

founders, marketers, investors?—?and Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

They have a related post: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs , but I think that looking at my Startup Metrics post provides a bit broader set of metrics to consider. This relates to another great post Freemium Founders: Start Charging for Things Today! Great stuff. Good stuff from Jason.

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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.)

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team.