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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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What is a Content Delivery Network and What Types of Businesses Should Leverage It?

Southern California Edison Blog

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of edge servers that accelerate website speed and content delivery by hosting content physically closer to customers via points of presence (PoP). This scalability enables media companies to better plan their growth to meet fluctuating customer demands. . SCE has you covered.

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

socalTECH

Rahul Sonnad: It runs on iPhone, Google Android, and will be running on a netbook with a major OEM this April, and in the near future you'd expect it to run on HTML alone. Rahul Sonnad: I had just moved to Southern California, so I didn't have the largest local network here. This runs on a number of platforms?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. He had a few early customers ready to go. Have you done all you can on paper? Do you have wireframes?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Before I jump into the 28 questions, let me start with 14 questions that I will want to go through first so I know a bit more about what we are talking about. Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? What’s their specific need / pain? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Before I jump into the 28 questions, let me start with 14 questions that I will want to go through first so I know a bit more about what we are talking about. Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? What’s their specific need / pain? Dismissable?

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