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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

Other non-semantic variables are important as well. A well-named site can thus easily rank 10-20% higher than a poorly named one on a purely non-semantic basis. Names with homophones will cause needless confusion. The best names tend to be short, to use dictionary words, to be devoid of hyphens, and/or to include a numeral.

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Startup Hiring: The 10% Solution

www.readwriteweb.com

Startup Hiring: The 10% Solution. Pinterest can hire, Square can hire, Dropbox can hire - these companies have a clear demand for their products and are becoming market leaders," explains Naval Ravikant, founder of startup advice site Venture Hacks. Need $25,000 for product development? developers.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

It’s difficult to hire and retain the top designers, engineers, data scientists, and QA professionals, and an organization’s sustained growth can be threatened by this block to growing engineering teams. A technical office in Israel enables tech companies to find and hire engineers and data scientists with meaningful, real world experience.

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