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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? . - First Principles.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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If you live somewhere where this is the case you’re better off discussing with your employer that you may from time-to-time work on private projects outside of work hours and you want their clearance in writing that this is OK. There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies.

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How Go Trexx is Making Travel More Rewarding, with Samantha Lurey

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But, what we are doing, is looking at how people travel and what modern tools we can provide to make the experience better, in the form of travel guides and things like that. Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children. Where did the idea for the company come from?

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. When to start PR? In a startup this is a mistake.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

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Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital It won because of interface, ease of use.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

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I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Before you go out looking for your Cofounder, you should also be thinking about what will motivate them as I talk about in How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

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