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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Without requiring a lot of meetings, it changes the perspective of the team (and its leadership) from fire-fighting to prevention. Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. StackOverflow), is anemic.

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