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Three Customer Discovery Tips For Building An Innovative Company

YoungUpstarts

by Joanna Malaczynski, founder of DESi. Before you do anything else, you need to take time to understand the needs and expectations of your customers on an ongoing basis as you develop your product and business. Pete Girard, Co-Founder of Toxnot, can attest to the importance of this. Engage with End-Users.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. Great piece! Great post!

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Is that a lot?

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

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As a CEO and founder, I work with employees, contract individuals, and other business owners who are genuinely stellar, and I love being part of the small business dream. Photo Credit: Anthony Green. Thanks to Anthony Green, Well Heeled Ltd ! #24- Thanks to Stephen Gary, Flashpacker Co ! #25- 24- The buck stops here.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.