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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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This is precisely why MakeSpace is growing so rapidly in its core markets: New York, Chicago and Washington DC where they can literally come and pick up your furniture and move it away and you never had to visit a facility and they do this at a cheaper price than incumbents by centralizing the location and thus having cheaper infrastructure costs.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

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These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. With this you have a new rate range for a Washington, DC based programmer of web applications: $42.15-$67.15 Step 4: Calculate the difference in rate.

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How to Turn a FanBoy into a Hater in 5 Minutes: Lessons from the New WaPo

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It turns out the $15 / month version was for national/international plus local DC news version. While I’m in the DC area for the holidays (maybe they geo-coded me here?), I have no interest in paying for local DC news as somebody who lives in LA. So I went online to search for other subscription options. I downloaded that.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I know Mike Lincoln in Washington DC does. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. I never met a person who didn’t talk about Mike Lincoln of Cooley Godward in DC. I worked with Sam Angus at Fenwick & West.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

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In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

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Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. Later, I discovered you could get paid to program computers, and really never looked back. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet , I landed a few jobs, and did quite a bit of writing.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.