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Sponsored Projects

We have been experimenting with some ideas at in50hrs and 32hourstartup and here is the latest incarnation of one of those ideas – Sponsored Projects. Why Sponsored Projects? Sponsored Projects allow you to work with developers in the region to

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Posted in Ideas, Opportunities, Software, startups

Customer Development Value Path

I am enjoying The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development (#tegtcd) and once in a while tweet a gem. One of the authors Patrick Vlaskovits, was kind enough  send me a set of diagrams from the book to use in my

Posted in Customer Development, startups

Daily Links May 20, 2011kill

Source: Check page alerts, InfoMinder, Infostreams and Twitter Stream Top 75 College Education Tweets and Twitter Accounts  via @onlinecourse Unemployed, educated, and indebted, more Millennials seeking work beyond U.S via @onlinecourse Hacker Monthly  Hacker Monthly – checkout the special issue on

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Posted in Data Scientists, Job Trends, startups, twitter

Resource Links for Micropreneurship, Niche Market Finder

Links on Micropreneurship (courtesy Micropreneur Academy) Micropreneur Manifesto Start Small, Stay Small Lessons Learned by a Solo Entrepreneur http://www.micropreneur.com Links for Niche Research Free Niche Market Finder Google Insights for Search

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Posted in Resources, Search, startups, Tools

14 Things I liked About In50hrs

The weekend marathon event In50hrs is behind us now. But the ripples continue. A few blog posts, tweets and retweets, facebook pictures and comments are still trickling in. Here is what I really like about the event. I liked the

Posted in Ideas, Impact, Innovation, Inspiration, People, Products, startups

Bringing An Idea to Life in 50 Hours

Here is an experiment we are going to try. Can you spend about 50 hours of intense work (over a weekend) and bring an idea to life? You sure can. There is a way to find out. Join us at

Posted in Ideas, Impact, Innovation, Products, Programming, startups

Startup Advice: Demo yourself

Basically, the open-source project became a simple “demo” of not only my code, but also myself. It’s more than testimonials. People in the community get to know you, so you stop being a stranger behind a website. This can change

Posted in startups

Startup Lessons: The Fallacy of Customer Development

The biggest challenge most web applications face is building a significant path to customers. Rather than going through customer discovery, customer validation, and then tackle customer creation, which can take months, I find it critical to start building and testing

Posted in Learning, Lessons, startups

The Anatomy of an Elevator Pitch

Elevator pitches are hard. Believe me, I have tried. I always had more success describing the product through examples of usage when I had more time. It looks as if the big CEOs have similar problems, as well. I smiled,

Posted in startups, Your Company Pitch

Needs of Product Startups

A few fragments: Acquiring talent in the startup phase Retaining talent in startups Getting initial customers (some times the first customer) Finding good designers Finding co-founders with complementary skills ( a designer wants a technical co-founder) Too many requests for

Posted in Products, startups
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