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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you need to provide RSS? Which devices? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you need to provide RSS? Which devices? Dismissable?

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Startup Thought Leaders With The Most Authentic Twitter Followers

InfoChachkie

Other than Barack Obama, YouTube, and Twitter, all of the accounts are owned by entertainers, which has caused some media pundits to wonder if some of these celebrities (or their surrogates) performed unnatural acts to boost the appearance of their Twitter influence. Twitter's asymmetrical design makes it difficult to remove fake followers.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. To do this, you must formulate a sound engagement plan in advance of receiving unexpected media attention. Although social media news sites can be effective market validation tools, they are not without their downsides.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. From BBM's web site: media RSS - extensions to RSS subscription format to support time based media, enclosures, copyrights and other meta-data needed for media. In fact, his point is that the application is really meta-data.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups?

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The Original Lean Startup MVP – Louie, Louie

InfoChachkie

My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’ The media attention surrounding the allegedly naughty lyrics caused millions of teenagers to seek out the record. As Steve Blank told me in THIS interview, "We now know… that startups search for a business model.

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