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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

For customer service? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves? Does it tap into geolocation services provided by the browser or rely on a third-party lookup table?

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Building Your MVP as a Non-Technical Founder

SoCal CTO

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. How do you use LinkedIn?

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks. A Micropayment Ecosystem for ALL Digital Goods. Fuel Micro Jobs. The world is flat, but it’s also poor.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Juno provided a free email service. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. How do you keep an audience as a blogger and on the network of StackExchange? Working at Juno. What did Juno do?