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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Find out who is good.

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5 Tips To Build A First Website That Will Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Now is the time to get your web site up. Here are five tips to help build a first web site that will help your business grow. Think of your first B2B web site as one step beyond your elevator pitch. It’s the first place a potential customer will go to check you out.

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How to Start a Small Web Design Firm

Up and Running

Once you’ve decided that you’re ready to start a small web design firm, you’ll need to develop a host of skills to help you run a successful business, including time management, sales and promotional strategies, and client acquisition. You should develop a sales process that covers the following: Finding new prospects.

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How to Find Your 4-Second Startup Pitch

Software By Rob

This post is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup. This is not your Unique Selling Proposition, and it’s not your elevator pitch. This is not your Unique Selling Proposition, and it’s not your elevator pitch. It’s the headline of your home page.

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Business Startup Tools: A Curated List of Our Favorite Tools and Resources to Build Your Company

Up and Running

The services and prices are fairly similar and they do have a visual website builder if that’s something you need. Elevator pitches and pitch decks. Stripe : If you’re building a web site or mobile app and plan to accept payments, Stripe is a great place to start. Payment systems. Landing pages and A/B testing.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

That’s one of the things we might develop during the summer program. Winging the 60-Second Pitch We’ve all heard of the elevator pitch , but last year, when asked to produce it, only two succeeded in delivering one in under a minute, and that’s among the select three dozen startups invited to do in-person interviews.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Even if your idea gets in the wrong hands, they will probably just get the high level “elevator pitch” which isn’t worth much anyways. Hopefully by that time you’ve developed the idea much further and in much greater detail – by talking to as many people as possible. Be the opposite of secretive.

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