You’ve got an amazing idea. You’ve got everything it takes to bring a start-up from nothing to something that really makes a dent in the universe. … and if you’re like most of today’s startups — you need to get an app in the hands of customers. Once customers love your app and you show...
[Continue Reading]How To Hire An Outsourced Web Designer And Survive The Process
Last week I interviewed Kyle Stalzer, CEO of a portfolio company, about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. This week, I’ll discuss the second-choice alternative: how to hire an outsourced designer for your company. It’s become a truism of the...
[Continue Reading]How To Recruit A Great Designer For Your Company
I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer, President of ffVC portfolio company Tackk, about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: how to recruit an A-quality designer for their company. (Update: Kyle now is Managing Partner, FUEL Strategies.) Next week, I’ll post part 2 in this series: how to...
[Continue Reading]I’ve made all the content on this blog identifiable by category
I’ve been maintaining this blog for almost a decade, and a lot of helpful content is now hard to find because I had been lax about tagging it with categories. So, I’ve just added categories for all of my past blog posts, which you can see in the right column. This should make old content...
[Continue Reading]Redesign of Teten.com and TheVirtualHandshake.com
Assembling a WordPress Website My mother Carol Teten and I met Daniella Norwood, the owner of ella j designs, and her husband Brian Bigda at a Lean Startup Machine weekend at which I was a judge. She did a great job redesigning my mother’s site, DancetimePublications.com, so I hired her to do a redesign of Teten.com...
[Continue Reading]Case study: Rebuilding our site
During 2009, we rebuilt from scratch the Teten.com, TheVirtualHandshake.com, and NavonPartners.com sites. Paxcel has done a great job since then maintaining and updating our sites. I wanted to share our process, so asked Mandeep Dang, Project Manager of Paxcel, to write a summary of what we did. As introduction, I am the lead web architect...
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