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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What are some examples of similar brands? For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Graphic design? UI/UX design? Who are the customers? Free trials?

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

Both Sides of the Table

I will use some examples from Parachute and some other portfolio companies to give you examples from our experiences of watching successful brands grow. better than anybody we had spoke with and she had the marketing chops to know how to communicate this to her market once she designed & built her products.

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Entrepreneurs: Employment law is not on your side!  

Berkonomics

Almost all laws dealing with employment are designed to protect the employee, not the company. Minimum wage laws, workplace safety, independent contractor tests, minimum hours required for benefits, overtime rules, discrimination protections, worker compensation insurance requirements and more are examples of such laws.

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Product Design for Iterative Processes

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post about design simplicity where I encouraged technology design teams to think about “designing for the novice, configuring for the pro&# users. Let me give you an example. I’ve seen this “error of iteration&# occur many times in software designs. One example is Quora.

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Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. One thing I liked in the design is how they treated completion of the profile: It's now complete and you just dismiss it from that area. You are up and going in just a few clicks. But the next step is a bit questionable.

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Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups

SoCal CTO

As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. One thing I liked in the design is how they treated completion of the profile: It's now complete and you just dismiss it from that area. You are up and going in just a few clicks. But the next step is a bit questionable.

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Registration Form Design with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Authentication

SoCal CTO

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). At first it seems like this should be pretty easy to design - think again.

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