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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

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. What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

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. What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

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Entrepreneurs: Are You an Olympic Athlete or a Spectator?

InfoChachkie

The following guest post is from Laurie Barkman, Marketing Lead at The Resumator , a SaaS applicant tracking system and hiring platform trusted by many of the fastest-growing companies in the world, including: Pinterest, Tumblr, Hootsuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly, Atari and Mashable. It’s also infectious. Follow Laurie on Twitter at [link].

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? For example, IaaS providers will give you raw infrastructure like compute and storage resources. Salesforce.com and Google Apps are two common examples.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

First, you’ll need a platform. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. I’m very particular to Disqus as my commenting platform. When you Tweet you should use a URL shortener tied to an analytics platform. I put much time into it. The new stuff: How do I get started?

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue. then in Silicon Valley.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

First, you’ll need a platform. It’s much easier to build an audience in social blogging platforms the way you do in Twitter or Facebook. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. I use WordPress. Some people swear by SquareSpace. There are the new tools like Tumblr and Posterous.

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