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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

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They hadnt yet reached out to their massive user network. Perrault says the company started scheduling Meebo meetups around the world and asking fans and users to come out to rub elbows with the Meebo staff. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

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Customers – Who are the Users? Marketing – How do you create end user demand? Intellectual Property/Patents – Strategic or Tactical, timing? Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Innovation – Business Model? Technology? Who are the economic buyers? Market Type – Existing/Sustaining?

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. Finance (1). Search: RSS Feed. But software engineers also pay a price for working by themselves. I have side projects, and I hold entrepreneurial ambitions. Thoughts on.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

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His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". If youre in a market like pharmaceuticals, where all user testing can be done in a lab, execution in a bubble makes sense, but if your startup is a web product it sounds like hubris. anyway the idea is users would be able to sign up and pick their favorite teams.

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From worker to start-up - how to plan your escape

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Online business plans & user growth projections by Darren 4 replies. Idea to execution, by the books. by Michael Edwards 4 replies.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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In this case, figure out the technology platform you’re likely to use and go where the users gather. If you’re likely to use Ruby on Rails, find the local Ruby users group monthly meeting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Where to find a workforce technologist?