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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? How will you be taking this to market? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? What are your key Startup Metrics ? Often this ties to marketing support. How do we prioritize internationalization versus getting something to market? Free trials?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? How will you be taking this to market? SEO for Startups )? What are your key Startup Metrics ? Often this ties to marketing support. SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Will back-end support for SEO be needed?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? How will you be taking this to market? SEO for Startups )? What are your key Startup Metrics ? Often this ties to marketing support. SEO Support - will URLs need to be well formed? Will back-end support for SEO be needed?

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Doing the Right Thing > Doing Things Right

Both Sides of the Table

They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. You have a marketing department with three people.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. That's great. Are you doing much of that?

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Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything

SoCal CTO

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? How will you be taking this to market? SEO for Startups )? What are your key Startup Metrics ? Yes, a lot of these questions are partially answered in a business plan / presentation deck / marketing plan. Tell me about the business.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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