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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Who are the customers? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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I Haven’t Seen A Startup Yet Thrive Without Marketing

Startup Professionals Musings

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Brand evangelists offline talk up your product lines at cocktail parties or recommend your services to friends while watching their kids' soccer game. Seed viral activity.

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Ground Control Aims At Voice Activated Entertainment, Backed By CAA

socalTECH

Los Angeles- and Vancouver-based Ground Control , a new startup led by LA technology veteran Mike Macadaan, said on Wednesday that it has launched with the backing of the Creative Artists Agency. CCO at Fox Interactive, VP of User Expericne and Design at AOL, and also having served at Intuit.

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Two Amazing Women Setting Out on Their Startup Journey

Both Sides of the Table

She was leaving IAC to start a company. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Didn’t I make myself clear about celebrities & startups ? Showing me designs. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Great moms, both.

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8 Advantages To Building Your Own Startup Prototypes

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. I believe the Maker Movement and hardware startups with limited resources are made for each other. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find.

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Tech Startup Culture May Have Changed For Good

Tech.Co

You know what a startup is, right? Or at least you have an idea of what a startup is like to work in? That is, of course, until the small, ambitious startup is acquired by a larger, more traditional company in its sector, or the small startup goes public with angry shareholders and regulators asking difficult questions.

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5 Keys To The Startup Mindset Required For Breakthrus

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are seriously looking to start the next billion-dollar startup, you need to get beyond the realm of enhancing a current solution. Rather than starting from a mindset of pushing the limits of technology, be determined to first find a customer need that can only be solved by the technology you know.

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