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Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything

SoCal CTO

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. SEO for Startups )? Some founders are taken aback. Other types of users?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. It needs to be a conversation. SEO for Startups )? SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Will back-end support for SEO be needed? Dates/Time Zones - Do we need to handle multiple Time Zones and do conversion automatically?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. It needs to be a conversation. SEO for Startups )? SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Will back-end support for SEO be needed? Dates/Time Zones - Do we need to handle multiple Time Zones and do conversion automatically?

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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

That's what you sound like when you claim that getting a software patent will protect you from competition. Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. We're better at SEO and social media. Social media and SEO is ever-changing quicksand. Leave a comment and join the conversation.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We're better than everyone else at SEO.". "A

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation. Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? SEO Support Will URLs and page content need to be properly formed for SEO? What back-end support for SEO is needed?

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). Only later did I realize that this was part of Dharmesh Shah’s larger blog and that the software was based on the popular “stack overflow&# software. It’s true.