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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Which devices?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do you have a merchant account already set up? Which devices?

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Los Angeles Web Developer

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Here were some of his particular issues: Most of the firms that come up are actually website design firms not website development firms. Web design typically refers to the process of interface design and graphic design. The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML.

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Not Betting on Flash

SoCal CTO

Reality is that we need that now, but at least we don't need to specifically design for it for now. Instead I'm betting on HTML/JavaScript. Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? That's my bet. I'm not betting that Flash is dead in five years. I'm hedging by NOT betting on Flash.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens. When web browsers (the programs that can read and interpret HTML) were popularized they were “dumb.” The WWW is the presentation layer. It was a terrible user experience.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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They have a related post: Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs , but I think that looking at my Startup Metrics post provides a bit broader set of metrics to consider. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Great stuff.

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. Putting your thoughts into spreadsheets, PowerPoint, HTML, etc. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. The world is much safer for non-founders.

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