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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism. Jeff Bezos loves web application inefficiency. Easy stuff should be easy.

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Delicious Closing Leaves a Bad Taste in My Mouth

This is going to be BIG.

We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. To shut off such an important asset in the history of Web 2.0 Once I did start using it, I got hooked. USV funded the company and for nine months, Josh and his team worked just three floors down from us. It was great to watch it grow and develop.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? – not just web-based startups. We tried to weed out those that were unsure why they were there as well as those trying to build yet another fad of the week web site. What if I was wrong? Would anyone even show up?

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Twitter Link Roundup #275 – Fascinating Stuff for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! The Future of Illustrations on the Web – Print Magazine crowdspring.co/1cW7hek. Top Web Developer Tools You Need To Know About crowdspring.co/1GIac8B.

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Why Customer Experience Is the Key to an Amazing Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Website design should be renamed customer experience design and anyone calling themselves a web designer should possess certifications in SEO and content. So I started urging them and now anyone who will listen to choose a customer about once a quarter and make them a customer experience guinea pig of sorts.

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6 Creative Ways to Figure Out If You’ve Got a Good Business Idea

Up and Running

Since working in this collaborative environment with a community of talented professionals in other fields, she’s successfully started a web design studio and magazine. Be your own guinea pig. Some business ideas require a human guinea pig or person willing to volunteer to use the product or perform the service.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product. Now that Im in a web based company Im finding a difficult match the framework, culturally. In short: Id love to read your take on a web version of customer development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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