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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. Do you need to provide RSS? Customer Service Support - Do you need specific interfaces and support for customer service?

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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. Do you need to provide RSS? Customer Service Support - Do you need specific interfaces and support for customer service?

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.". He lamented that sales at his former startup, Microline Software, were initially difficult to achieve because his target market was software developers. The posting resulted in 40points and about 30comments.

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