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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Become a Web Developer from Scratch!

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Covering the blossoming startup industry in Portland, Oregon, and the Silicon Forest. Related posts Cloudability’s day in the sun: Portland company lands $8.7 0) Just hack it: Nike launches Nike+ Accelerator powered by TechStars in Portland. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Catalyze A Region's Entrepreneurship?

ReadWriteStart

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. But there's also a real lack of understanding of what it takes to bring a venture to market.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

There are a lot of companies, out there, who call themselves experts in online marketing, but end up being untrustworthy and ineffective. An acorn holds the potential for growth (an important concept in marketing efforts) into a substantial and strong oak tree. My company is called White Rose Marketing Solutions.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

You don’t need a developer to use App Inventor, and you can create Android applications that use a smartphone’s features, including GPS and SMS. If you’d like to capture the iPhone market, too, check out AppBreeder , a web-based iPhone app maker, or SwebApps , another tool for building iPhone applications.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. If they charge well above the market average then they are usually either greedy or motivated to do something on their own that you are basically funding. You are probably wondering how do I know if they are asking for more than the market rate or not?

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How to Find Great Freelancers on Upwork (Formerly oDesk)

Up and Running

As I write this, I am currently sitting in my home office, overlooking my sleepy little neighborhood in Southeast Portland. I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office.