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  10-hard-lessons-learned

  By John De Goes @ stackstreet.com - strategy tips for your startup based upon what ultimately didn't work for his,

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  ACQUISITION-how-i-went-from-0-1000-users-in-48-hours

  Jonathan Bird founder @snippet repo - describes his startup experience

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  ACQUISITION-how-to-get-your-first-100-email-subscribers

  By Noah Kagan - how to get your first 100 email subscribers

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  ACQUISITION-submit-your-startup-launch

  ] by ... - 32 places you can submit your startup launch

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  ACQUISITION-using-twitter-to-aquire-100-new-customers-a-day

  By Trevor Starick - Explains how he is using Twitter to aquire 100 new visitors to his SITE every day.

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  ACQUISITION-what-did-you-do-to-get-your-first-100-users

  ]src=HN ? re: customer aquisition strategies - initial

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  AQUISITION-where-can-i-post-my-startup-to-get-beta-users

  ]src=HN ? re: sites that you can post your site/saas business to in order to find beta users

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  AQUISITION-where-to-find-your-first-2000-beta-signups

  by Clement ?founder? @ Front - discusses the different channels they used to get their first 2000 beta sign-ups for their SaaS business, front,

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  email-patterns-for-web-apps

  25 emails you should be sending to your customers

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  failed-company-successfull-pitch-deck

  EXAMPLE - startup pitch deck

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  GROWTH-10-effective-growth-hacks-to-increase-revenue

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  GROWTH-how-to-create-a-cult-following

  By Ligaya Tichy - for your business -

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  GROWTH-how-to-get-free-press

  by - How to get free press: Be social, follow through, and make a cool product people can afford - Technorati Business

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  GROWTH-how-to-grow-your-startup

  ] Ivan Kirigan

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  GROWTH-how-to-pitch-your-startup-to-Robert-Scoble

  ] A summary of this podcast interview with Rackspace technology evangalist Robert Scoble on how to get his attention on your startup

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  GROWTH-not-always-the-focus

  [SLIDES] illustrating how startups should focus LESS on aquisition/activation and MORE on retention/referral

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  GROWTH-scaling-user-growth

  By Andrew Chen -

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  HIRING-heres-why-your-not-hiring-the-best-and-the-brightest

  by Jeff Atwood, partner @ first round, co founder stackexchange, founder @discourse - Jeff explains part of why there ?is an? 'engineering crunch' in the sv/+ markets. Startups are only looking at 'hiring' in SF, not looking at REMOTE WORKERs from ....

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  HIRING-the-best-hires-are-right-under-your-nose

  By Pete Kazanjy founder @ TalentBin - recruiter talks about the practice of 'strip mining' your current employees social networks to uncover talent

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  how-to-organize-your-startup-research

  By __ @ Hacker News - Ask HN how do you organize your startup research

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  how-to-win-as-a-first-time-founder

  ]Drew Houston - founder of dropbox tells his startup story and discusses what he feels are the 6 key strategies to make your startup a success

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  how-we-built-and-launched-mod-for-22450

  ] @mod - a look through the bootstrapped startup process for this company

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  how-we-rebuilt-our-business-model-in-1-week

  By __ -

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  https://www.mightyspring.com/

  [SaaS] show HN - passive job search / recruiter as a service, The easiest way to advance your career in startups for EMPLOYEES, ] for EMPLOYERS - access to quality candidates

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  i-dont-know

  By Jason Freedman - Shares his experience on how to answer the questions that you don't know the answer to.

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  i-never-finish-anythi

  by greig founder @

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  IDEAS-do-things-that-do-NOT-scale

  by Paul Graham, founder @ycombinator -

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  IDEAS-learn-to-think-big

  by Gabriel Weinberg, founder and CEO @ duckduckgo.com, shares some thoughts and some strategies about thinking big,

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  inside-ddg

  by john paul titlow @fastcompany - indepth look at the history behind ddg, the internets next great search engine

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  launch-festival-2014

  Startup launch festival 2014, Jason Calacanis of TWIST, 8000 attending,

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  microventures.com

  SITE - Funding for tech startups(), INVESTING in STARTUPS for backers(), SRC=Calacanis? rel to launch.co festival

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  openCNAM

  SaaS business, caller id, has open api with FREE pkg for small requests, independant provider(NOT telco), reasonable prices for larger volumes, CTO Randall Degges

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  Pitch-Deck-Examples

  ] have a look at the pitch deck that square founders used to present their startup to investors, more examples from airBnB,

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  PRICING-negotiating-discounts

  strategy advice for when customers ask for a discount before they even start using your product

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  review-of-30-applications

  ] @ - talks about his ycombinator experience, MORE IMPORTANTLY the message is /yc <> yourStartUp.destination, yourStartUP.destination == growth,

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  SaaS-business-lessons

  founder of Frecklenet saas company on some of the lessons he has learned in 5 years

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  snapchat-plan-to-make-money

  ] article looks at this tech startup's plan to make money and discusses/explains the lofty valuations of tech startups like it ] more on snapchat

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  STARTING-how-to-do-a-startup-in-your-spare-time

  in this blog post, exist.io co founder offers up some 'fluff', while commenter edw519 addresses the 'elephant' in the room

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  STARTING-i-want-to-get-into-startups-but-i-dont-know-where-to-start

  where to look if your interested in joining a startup

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  SUPPORT-4-million-to-one

  By __ - How i handle customer support for the Trello app

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  the-irrational-behaviour-that-increases-conversion

  By Talia Wolfe - one of the greatest ?hacks? since the dawn of marketing has been the endowment effect.

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  the-ulimate-GUIDE-for-applying-to-ycombinator

  by Kevin William David, cofounder @ walletkit - a comprehensive list of resources for those considering applying to Ycombinator's startup accelerator program

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  VALIDATION-how-to-validate-your-mobile-app-concept

  ] question @ quora -

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  VALIDATION-simple-way-to-validate-your-idea

  by Justin Jackson - simple but effective way to validate your startup(or other) ideas you may have

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  we-gave-up-on-our-idea-now-a-change-that-took-10-minutes-is-making-us-money

  By - their text book exchange marketplace didn't work out but when they added some affiliate links to , their site started bring in money

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  web-app-guide

  By Dan Zambonini - A FREE guide to building a web app BUSINESS, creative commons licenced

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  WFIO

  ] by @founder @hotmail - great article on overcoming adversity and sticking with it when all seems lost in the

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  what-do-you-need-to-make-a-successfull-web-app

  By Thomas Fuchs - founder @ FreckleTimeTracking

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  what-to-ask-for-on-a-business-partnership

  By __ @ __ -

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  why-no-one-wants-to-buy-my-app

  Developer builds solution to problem but no one is buying? what happened?

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