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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

What are some sites or companies in the same space? What functionality would make your company launch-ready? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Does it need to throttle potential malicious activity? How big is the anticipated development team? will you leverage?

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. Bong Koh: We started at the end of April.

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Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. It’s actually quite hard to lay out an annual company strategy that is articulate and underpinned by facts.

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Ten Startup Tips From Steve Jobs

InfoChachkie

He is a great example of…building an enchanting company.”. That’s too bad ,” Steve told him, “ because I signed the inside, along with the other members of my development team. However, the danger with such opportunistic, short-term activities is that they derail the company from achieving its strategic goals.

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an amazing service that that enables the exchange of micro payments for any variety of activity. MySpace has lost the battle as the “place for friends”.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Where I use the Discussion Group: * Ive not been very active in the discussion group on particular topics. There has certainly been a storm of activity over this question. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Maybe this meme will help.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. But I loved reading them and so did my team. I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company.