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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. Fall quarter of Sr.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. 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 provide RSS? Which devices?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Of course, it's way more complex than just these questions. 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 provide RSS? Which devices?

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

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Their SaaS product saves web developers and designers time, while allowing them to create cutting-edge websites. Relying on their customers'' penchant for design and good taste, the company announced on April 1st that it had created a new "Geo" template for Bootstrap, a leading web development tool. Share and Enjoy.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. It might also be through twitter, Facebook, SMS, RSS, voice, etc. By asking these questions, almost invariably we begin to see the product design in a bit different way…. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Don’t be a Ning!

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Startup CEOs Lessons From Ben Affleck

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During the course of the discussion, I was struck by the similarity of the movie creation process and that of the typical tech startup. actors, set designers, wardrobe artists and studio executives), has allowed Ben to grow into an effective and successful startup CEO. His ability to partner with his films' stakeholders (e.g.,

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

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So integrating an application with SaaS providers allows a developer to consume SaaS services as components and building blocks without having to reinvent the wheel (eg, using Google Maps for location services, using RSS aggregators for content/news services, etc). Of course, no one service is correct for all use cases.

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