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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

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Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

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Facebook’s Biggest Mistake?

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Anthony Kosner, contributor at Forbes.com, stated that “Facebook gets twice as much mobile traffic on its web app as on its native iOS and Android apps.” While the web based version of Facebook has an abundance of display banners and advertisements littering every page, the mobile version has nothing of the sort. Share and Enjoy.

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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

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The rapid growth of seed investments is the natural result of a number of industry trends, which continue to drive down the cost of launching and operating a web-based business. Customer dollars - Sophisticated entrepreneurs understand that the ideal source of capital is from customers’ wallets. Share and Enjoy.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Do you need to provide RSS? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? What’s their specific need / pain?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Do you need to provide RSS? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? What’s their specific need / pain?

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.