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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

It’s simple, colorful, adaptive and therefore—in today’s flat design, utility driven world—sexy! Even at its simplest, it’s a great place to manage and make new connections, to find and hire employees, and to build a portfolio that showcases your skills, experience, and abilities. Branding and design tools for the DIYer.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. Does that include product support or design?

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Values Build Startup Culture: A Founder’s Take on Getting Started

View from Seed

We keep ourselves accountable to those goals through company progress dashboards, Scrum, etc. As I’m writing this from the office at 8:30pm, our lead designer is exploring Seoul. Portfolio' Clear Goals: We seek to have clear goals — organizational down to individual. We’d have it no other way!

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. Color Scheme Designer. online/offline, extensible wireframing tool w/design library. 99 Designs - marketplace for crowdsourced graphic design. Customer service.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. for anyone needing user interface, design and branding for their project visit my portfolio: [link] we love to build bold identities for fresh ideas. One thing I look for is that if their own portfolio site needs a lot of help then theyre probably too busy to update it.