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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Review the code being built. Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. The "Questions" post is probably the most important. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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What did they do before you came along?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Here’s a simple question, often asked when designing software but more useful when you’re designing your marketing and sales pitch: How are people doing this today without you? Here’s how this gets your marketing and software design off the ground. Because it’s so much easier to poke around code on 8.5

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7 Keys To Making A Business Out Of Your Great Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. These two jobs need to be done in parallel. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment.

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[Review] The Social Customer

YoungUpstarts

Neither is it to achieve the greatest reach or “virality” in one’s digital campaign. T = Tools, the myriad platforms and software needed. Books & Reviews Adam Metz business strategy CRM customer relationship social business social commerce Social CRM social ecosystem social media The Social Customer'

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[Review] Gamification By Design: Implementing Game Mechanics In Web And Mobile Apps

YoungUpstarts

Which essentially means that if you’re looking to build a community, or encourage virality of a message through your intended audiences, you’ll need to apply different strategies to attract and retain them.

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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. It happens whenever youre writing code on your own machine, or you have a team working on a branch. It also happens whenever you have code that is checked-in, but not yet deployed anywhere.