Win a $20 Amazon Gift Card with AppsFolder

 Today AppsFolder is launching a contest to help spread the word about our new exclusive deals!

 All you have to do to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card is to follow AppsFolder on Twitter and to tweet this message:
"Get exclusive deals on web and desktop apps right now! Just visit: http://goo.gl/7MLaf and get yours! @appsFolder #contest"

You can sign up for the $20 Amazon Gift Card contest through midnight EST on Friday, 9 March 2012 and the winner will be announced Saturday, 10 March 2012! 

Good luck!

Before signing up for the contest, please read carefully the terms and conditions below:

$20 Amazon Gift Card Contest

1. Follow @AppsFolder on Twitter and tweet the message "Get exclusive deals on web and desktop apps right now! Just visit: http://goo.gl/7MLaf and get yours! @appsFolder #contest" any time between now and March 09, 2012.
2. Each tweet you send means one more chance to win the contest! 
3. The drawing to determine the winner of the Amazon.com gift card will be held the morning of March 10, 2012. 
4. The contest winner will be notified by DM on Twitter.com that they have won, and they must respond within three calendar days.
5. You must follow @appsFolder account on Twitter and tweet the message to be eligible to win.
6. AppsFolder is not affiliated with Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble. We just like giving away prizes, and a gift card seems like a nice thing to do!

AppsFolder - Get exclusive deals on web and desktop apps!

Kickofflabs deal featured on AppsFolder

AppsFolder - is a really cool way for apps to find new costumers by offering exclusive price deals!
Each week AppsFolder will feature an exclusive deal that will help you save up to 90% on apps that you really use and enjoy!
From web tools for building awesome landing pages to apps that can help you invoice your costumers, everything you'll need AppsFolder will offer you!

All I want to add is that AppsFolder is not a group buying site - that is, the offers are all purchased on the spot - just click the buy button  and you'll get it right away!

What do you think? Can AppsFolder be a succesful site with competitors like AppSumo or Startups.com?

Your Competitive Advantage

"Are you going to succeed because you return emails a few minutes faster, tweet a bit more often and stay at work an hour longer than anyone else?

I think that's unlikely. [...]

It seems to me that you will succeed because you confronted and overcame anxiety and the lizard brain better than anyone else. Perhaps because you overcame inertia and actually got significantly better at your craft, even when it was uncomfortable because you were risking failure. When you increase your discernment, maximize your awareness of the available options and then go ahead and ship work that scares others... that's when you succeed."

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How To Pitch a VC (or Angel)

How To Pitch a VC (or Angel)

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QuickStartup: Mockup Builder

Mockup Builder is very useful tool for companies (users) who are developing software/web products from one side and the companies (users) who would like to create software/web products on other side.

Problem Mockup Builder is solving:
• Reduce uncertainties on early phases of software development. Increate time and cost of work in the end.
• Development of functional requirements of software or website.
• For executors: Better understanding of what should be done based on mockup: “Make sure we are on same page (with customer)”

10 Productivity Tools I Use Everyday

Every once in a while I'm surfing the web trying to find some new tools that could help me work better and be more productive!

What's funny is that no matter of what new product I find - there are only a handfull of apps that are truly helping me with my work and be more productive.

That's why I want to  share with you my top 10 productivity tools I use:

1. Google Suite (Docs, GMail, Calendar)

I really don't know what I would do without my GMail or Calendar or even my Docs. I'm simply addicted to the entire suite of apps that Google offers.

GMail - my emails & tasks

Calendar - appointments and to-do list

Docs - everything from spreadsheets to presentations and even some mokups made with Drawing tool!

Workomotion - Work portfolios for online professionals

http://workomotion.com/

Workomotion - is a place where tech professionals showcase, promote and share their work projects with the world and encourage their team members to do the same.

Here is a quick interview with Lucian Luncan - cofounder of Workomotion:

#1: - How did you come up with the idea? How did it all started?

My friend and co-founder Adrian Trif who is a frontend developer saw there are no portfolio sites for people like him(non-designers)where they can showcase their work, so he came up with a concept called "project centric team portfolios" and won a challenge/hackathon called "Startupdays" with it. About six month later I told him that I loved the idea and would like to join him in developing it, so we started working on it with 2 very bright software developers we knew (Gabriel Pechesi and Marius Ghita).

Building my first startup & my first failure!

1. Started (very enthusiastic) working on my first project (startup).

[If interested]

1. Working everyday on what I thought can become something interesting (and valuable) was extremly exciting and I definitely think that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life (start, build & grow interesting projects).

3. Managed to build an MVP

4. Drink Beer - party

5. Talk with bar/pub/etc. owners

6. Get rejected - Every freakin' single time

7. Drink Beer - :(:(

8. Talk with OTHER bar/pub/etc. owners

9. Again - Get rejected - Every freakin' single time

10. Admit I've failed - Looking for what I've done wrong (still looking)

11. Pursuit my next Ideea!

NinjaReply - get quality feedback on your design, product or ideea!

 Here's the pitch:

The main ideea of NinjaReply is to bring your project in front of a handfull of people that might give you usefull feedback!

This could be the first step after you've finished developing your app and you want some honest opinion on what you've done so far and I think that this could be a very powerfull way to really see the pros and cons!

NinjaReply - offers right now 2 main plans: Desing Feedback and Product Feedback which offers 20 reviews for $10;

As would the name suggest - with Design Feedback you can get feedback on your design and UI, and with Product Feedback - you can get feedback on your overall ideea and product features.

The Ninja Reviewers (as we like to call ourselves) are curenly a handfull of people, internet savy with storng knowledge of User Experience, Interaction Design, Software Engineering, etc.

We are also looking to grow our team - and to accept outside "ninjas" - so if you would like to become a Ninja reviewer you can Sign Up Here!

Every ninja will be rewarded with $0.10 per review ( + another $0.10 if the reviewer likes your feedback).

We also want to mention that we are curently in private beta - so there is much work to be done - but we are looking forward to hear some of your feedback!

Good fucking advice!

http://goodfuckingdesignadvice.com