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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

This human touch can be as light as email follow ups, or as much as inside sales people doing multiple sales calls and demos. For example: Create demo videos that answer every likely sales question. I'm familiar with Seth and all of the other social media/marketing people's ideas, methods, etc. I appreciate your input!

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors. Personal authority.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

This meant that we were on three-month deadline, hoping to show some traction by demo day. We launched a week before demo day and were able to generate a good media buzz (I’ll get more specific later) by piggybacking Pinterest and reach a go-to market that was highly relevant for us at the time. Isn’t that fun?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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