Social Media Marketers, Graphic Designers, Market Analysts, Salesforce Consultants, SEM Strategists, Executive Assistants and more Talent on-demand
via solvate.com Another take on how to contract out various kinds of work....
10 Fantastic Places for Finding Designers Online : Technology
> 10 Fantastic Places for Finding Designers Online > > Christina Warren > > > > Feb 24, 2010 – > > Unless you are a creative agency, most small businesses don’t have the luxury of having an in-house d...
Bootstrapping Hong Kong’s Startup Community
It seems like there are a few re-occurring themes that pop up when talking about HK becoming a known startup location, and why people don’t see it happening. HK will never be Silicon Valley: + Persona...
Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure
> FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2009 > > Achieving a failure > > We spend a lot of time planning. We even make contingency plans for what to do if the main plan goes wrong. But what if the plan goes right, and ...
Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 2
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mediahttpwwwashmauryEzggw.png.scaled1000.png) via ashmaurya.com Another post by Ash Maurya that is a good read for anyone that is thinking about starting a st...
No Accounting For Startups « Steve Blank
[](/startupshk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mediahttpsteveblankfpbFoH.jpg.scaled1000.jpg) via steveblank.com This post has a very good explanation of the difference between the kind of accounting that i...
Should You Charge For Your Minimum Viable Product?
> > > Ash Maurya is the Founder of WiredReach, which is behind the bootstrapped startup Cloudfire. This post originally appeared on Venture Hacks; it is republished here with permission. > > What you ...
Cheap and Nice Serviced Offices in HK – Solo Office
> MINI offices > for lease / rent > > located in > heart of Causeway Bay/Tsim Sha Tsui > > 2 mins walk to > MTR station > > 1-4 > workstations > > rental only > start from HK$2000 all inclusive via so...
99designs.com – Logo Design, Webdesign, Design Contests
via 99designs.com I know there are similar sites to this out there. This one was recommended by someone that is on a list I follow, had a good experience with them. Many startups don’t have the design...
Redeye VC: After the Techcrunch Bump
> After the Techcrunch Bump > > I see many consumer Internet pitches these days where the basic marketing strategy is to (1) get covered by Techcrunch, (2) get tens of thousands of users from the “Tec...
Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University
via eweek.stanford.edu This could be a good reference for topics we could use during meetups. I wish I could be there to attend these open sessions....
Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015) – Master of 500 Hats
> I’m on a redeye to NYC, supposed to be working on a presentation i’m giving in a few hours… but fuck it, i can’t get this outta my head, so here we go. > > (note: extremely raw, uneven, long, 1st dr...
Terms of Service Generator – General Counsel PC and Legal River
Terms of Service Generator Privacy Policy Generator This is a new service that someone is putting together to help startups with generating the TOS and Privacy Policy that you need on a site. Of cours...
how Zynga (Farmville) uses minimum viable products « Grattisfaction
> Zynga is a social gaming giant. Farmville,their largest game, has more than 69 million monthly active users, making it larger than Twitter. Unlike many companies, Zynga also monetizes these users ef...
Customer Development Flow Chart | Market By Numbers | Marketing Help
> By brantcooper, January 13, 2010 2:32 pm > > Based on input from Steve Blank and others, I updated the Customer Development image I created a few weeks ago. Steve suggested I attempt to structure th...
The Magic Word in Customer Development Emails
> In Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank covers (pp. 59-60) strategies for making first customer contacts, the process for engaging early potential customers about your idea. I have been sending a...
A Startup is Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company « Steve Blank
via steveblank.com This post from Steve Blank is a good summary about the growth of a startup to a more established company and how it doesn’t just happen over night. It looks like this will be a seri...
How to Price Your App – Learning from Basecamp
> April 15, 2004 > > > > December 9, 2004 > > > > February 27, 2009 > > via blog.adsdevshop.com This post has a full range of the iterations of the pricing layout chart and also the pricing that Basec...
Go Test It – Automated Cross-Browser Functional Testing (GoTestIt)
via go-test.it This looks like a cool service for those that are into continuous integration testing. Instead of having to setup the test servers to run your front end tests, they have it all ready to...
Competitious – Competitive metrics and info.
via competitious.com This looks like an excellent tool for knowing your enemy or at least the guys that are playing in a similar space to your endeavor. I’ll be trying it out and post up feedback late...