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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

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Here at Palo Alto Software, we spend all day every day building software and writing advice for small businesses and entrepreneurs. So without further ado… Palo Alto Software’s Best Small Business Tools of 2013. Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business. Ask developers if they’ve been involved with a previous web startup and what their role was in the startup.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

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With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

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Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. As for web and social apps, for some platforms, you’ll want to have a special development team. PM OK, agree.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

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Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? For Non-Trival Tasks It’s Hard to Hire Good Developers The obvious way past this hurdle would be to hire the skills you are missing.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

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9: Don’t forget Flash, Flex, RIA, RSS, Videos etc. In the past I have recommended Web Link Validator from REL Software as something we have had a positive experience with. It can do a lot more than check missing tags, see the website for all the features, so all around a good piece of software to have.

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How to pick a co-founder

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SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ).

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