A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It always goes like this: I'm just a two-person operation with no budget. What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? First, take a deep breath and remember that every little software company on Earth in under this threat.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Fera can even tailor elements like reviews to feature past buyers whose profiles align with those of current shoppers. As a simple example, after you enter your zip code, the city and state auto-populate. This is such a simple friction reducer, yet most ecommerce merchants don’t have their checkout set up to ask for the zip code first.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. I had my dev team asking for us to work through new architectural components to improve performance. I had my operations team telling me it was too hard for them to run analytics unless we built in our new BI platform. What did he know?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery. Recognizing the business goals and operational scope of the client firm. The hourly rate levied by the developers based on their location and market conditions.

Technical Review 163

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

An advantage of Shopify is that you have a clear breakdown of costs per month based on your required features whereas different WooCommerce features may require different amounts of development work. So if you operate as a subscription-based business, you can immediately eliminate it as an option and look into Stripe or Authorize.net instead.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Here at Palo Alto Software, we spend all day every day building software and writing advice for small businesses and entrepreneurs. So without further ado… Palo Alto Software’s Best Small Business Tools of 2013. For Operations. Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We have over 160,000 developers on our platform from over 140 countries capable of writing code in more than 50 programming languages. We want to make sure that every time we match an engineer with a company, individuals get up to speed and seamlessly integrate into their new team as quickly as possible. What’s the format?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. Great strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

As awe-inspiring as living on a remote tropical island sounds, there may not even be electricity between certain times of day due to rotating power scheduling whereby a town only receives electricity for a few hours daily. Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. Make sure your papers are in order.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. Great strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 1, 2019

Say you work at a SaaS company selling AI software. Blog posts by your development team explain the complexities of how the AI system works, highlight how you gather and parse training data, and list use cases befitting Fortune 500 clients. You want to position yourself as an industry leader. Image source).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Even worse, when it comes time to "fix it right" the team gets pushback from the business leaders, who want more features. If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

” Here’s how Lucian Adrian Stroie of R/GA defines it : As it is the case with testing in any field (not just in software), it’s aim and scope is to provide information to stakeholders and decision makers about the tested item. User testing: Examines how real people perceive and use your site/software.

Technical Review 63

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Here’s how Lucian Adrian Stroie of R/GA explains quality assurance… Lucian Adrian Stroie , R/GA : “As it is the case with testing in any field (not just in software), it’s aim and scope is to provide information to stakeholders and decision makers about the tested item. via Develop With Purpose). via Box UK).

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Software Review Mobile Analytics 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. Great strategy.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Then the designs are handed to a team of programmers with various specialties. Nice write-up.

San Francisco 158

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Developed in the early 90’s by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber , Scrum is: Lightweight. The Development Team.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. The culture of a large technology company is to rely on internal development or large, stable, and proven external vendors. Key operational and pivot decisions require corporate approval.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Burn Rate 214

thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development. Certainly, knowing software development in general and web development specially cannot hurt in anyway.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I'm gonna lease you this, you know, cross-functional development team.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too. This is the model my customers referenced when I was selling them demand-gen software in 2014. Choose the model that aligns best with your business: How complex is your marketing and sales operation? Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you are starting new, or going to touch the code on your website for any reason, please, in the name of Thor, Superman and Dilbert, use a tag management solution. Here's the report for operating system. The thing you might like the most is the no code instrumentation. What do you learn from this tab? Free or paid.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. It also means that developers can feel free to use those technologies when creating their applications and not have to worry that the device itself won’t support a particular function. Chrome and Safari.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer.

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