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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. They don’t love documentation. you also need to update your marketing documents including your website.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Kofax: Now Processing More Than 1.1M Mortgages A Year

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Irvine-based document capture and automation systems developer Kofax announced this morning that it hs products are now being used to process more than 1.1 kofax mortgage document processing mobile capture' million mortgages--or approximately 375 million pages--in the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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10 Keys To Enabling Your Startup For Unicorn Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. No product, even with a large opportunity, is ready to scale until you can show it working, with multiple customers paying the full price, to validate the business model. Word-of-mouth does not scale.

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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. The customer experience is more than the service.

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Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development

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Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver. In three of the cases, the founder was finding that the software teams (1 in-house, 2 outsourced) were delivering relatively well in the short-run. You don't need a lot of documentation of these items.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. Very customer focused. You name it. And yes, VC’s, too.