One way to build brand awareness is to post about current events on your Facebook business page to increase your edgerank.
How to Build Brand Awareness
Aug 11, 2012
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Startup Employee Equity - Restricted Stock vs RSU
Aug 11, 2012
Restricted stock - “The company issues common stock to the employee and puts some restrictions on the stock. The restrictions typically include a vesting schedule and some limits on how the stock can be sold once it is vested.”
RSU - “A RSU is a promise to issue restricted stock upon the …
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Use Smore to Easily Create Splash Pages for Your App
Aug 11, 2012
Smore has a nice looking site to let you easily create splash pages for your mobile app. They’ll host the splash page for you, and it works on desktop, mobile, and Facebook.
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Why are Lawyers So Expensive?
Aug 11, 2012
A nice explanation of why lawyers are so expensive in this article: http://www.quora.com/Why-are-lawyers-so-expensive-even-with-the-excess-supply-of-lawyers.
It lists several reasons, including:
- “Sticky” wages
- “Sticky” billing rates
- Limited discounting
- Obsession with prestige and rankings
- Money is viewed as a proxy for prestige
- Associate salaries are not an efficient, free market …
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Startup Stock Options - When to make an 83b election?
Aug 10, 2012
“…the tax rules for restricted stock provide both an advantage and a disadvantage when compared to the rules for vested stock. If you don’t like the trade-off, you can make the section 83b election. When you do, you’ll be treated (mostly) as if you received vested stock…”
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Mobile Market Breakdown
Aug 9, 2012
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10 Things to Think About When Designing iPad Apps
Mar 27, 2012
The article “will explore 10 of the key things to think about when designing your app (and planning the design process)”. Here are the bullet points, but the good bits are the details, examples, and screenshots in the article.
- Take A Goal-Oriented Approach To Simplify Functionality
- Leverage What You Know …
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7 Guidelines for Designing Mobile Interfaces
Mar 23, 2012
Here’s a nice article describing some of the key areas of mobile UI with examples of apps that follow good design principles. They go into detail about their 7 guidelines for designing mobile interfaces:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/80489608/7-Guidelines-to-Great-Mobile-Design
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Giving Users a Visual Path for Website Design
Mar 17, 2012
Too many articles that discuss interface design fail to include examples or comparisons. Here’s a great article in UX Magazine that doesn’t make that mistake - Visual Design and Usability Yellow Brick Road.
The article describes giving the user a visual path through the website by properly using whitespace …
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Usability Resource and Tutorials
Mar 13, 2012
I just found this cool website called Usability First that provides “valuable information about usability for anyone interested in the design of software or websites, from beginners to experts, in academia or in industry.”
An excerpt from their Cognitive Walkthroughs Section:
To determine the level of usability for a website …