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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

You likely are writing your first one of these. It's fine to send out documents that have older information. Minimum Viable Product: a guide , Lessons Learned, Eric Ries, August 3, 2009 10 examples of minimum viable products Minimum Viable Product revisited – the MVP Curve? Don't stress over format.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

Both Sides of the Table

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information. They also have my favorite company intro video ever.

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Proven | Founder Interview with Pablo Fuentes. Job Markets, & The Future of Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. Connect and share information with other people on your staff. The availability of information is a big deal. Meaning, write very good job descriptions, but that doesn’t mean you need to write long ones. on the app.

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What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding

Both Sides of the Table

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. With perfect information and too much competition you pay up or they walk right down the street and get it from somebody else.” Same as I felt.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

Today, I received this email from the BBB: We’re writing to let you know that during the past month the Reliability Report that we publish on Make It Work was accessed 6 times. Our reporting system relies on an algorithm that takes into account a variety of business factors including complaint and other business information.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

The key to getting money is that the people writing the check trust you. When I write an angel round check I always tell me wife, “let’s assume that money is lost.&# So goes angel investing. But this is all public information that has been Tweeted by people who KNOW this is public information. Sound creepy?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls. Home alarms.

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