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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. Welcome to the accelerated version of Startup Weekend. Teams: CoderTie.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. They were rapidly innovating and involving customers. We then ran customer pilots for 30 days which proved very compelling.

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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

Tech Zulu Event

Journey allows for powerful logic through high-level JavaScript, which is a language that millions of people are already familiar with. Learning simple JavaScript in order to build apps on Journey is however quite feasible. Any competition? Deploying your app to make it available to users is a one-click process.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Like anything in life, if you want a fair deal on the deferred fee and warrant percentage you need to talk to a few lawyers to make it competitive. But make it competitive. Here’s a hack for you.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. I’ll bet your customers, business partners or suppliers would love similar.

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