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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Which devices?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Which devices?

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. Putting your thoughts into spreadsheets, PowerPoint, HTML, etc. Get customer input. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback.

Startup 365
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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

Winning customers is sales. Learn HTML. I wasn’t attending enough sales meetings, I wasn’t looking customers in the eye and seeing their reaction. Go see customers yourself. Focus On Customers – Nothing Else Matters. Number one is sales. Life is sales. Raising money. Hiring employees. Learn JavaScript.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

We also have a managed serviecs business, where we have campaign managers and designers working on RFPs and mocks, and when a campaign is sold, will design the ad units all the way through to ad approval. The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers.

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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. Questions to Spark Design Discussions Some interesting questions to ask about the user interface beyond the web site: What parts of your product can be effectively accomplished in the other user interface?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.