Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2014

Crowdtivate accepts ideas or projects related to arts/books/films, technology and assistive technology. In addition, the top three monthly Crowdtivate campaigns will receive exclusive assistance, including access to test users, marketing support, startup funding, free software development, invention development, and infrastructure support.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Google's algorithm, combined with the hardware and software to implement a search of trillions of websites in 0.2 37signals' ranting platform — a blog with 131k followers and a best-selling book — is nearly impossible to build even with a full-time army of insightful writers. That's just one example! Common vision.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse. years of software development.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Agile marketing takes its inspiration from Agile software development, which is how 90% of companies develop software today. The pandemic hit just as I was finishing up some of the interviews in the book. To learn more about Jim Ewel and his new book, visit his website. How can it give businesses an edge?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. We were able to crank out software code at a much greater pace than was ever possible for.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Since releasing my newest book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors I’ve been continually getting the questions “Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?” We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual” With excerpts like that, you can be sure that “ Rework ” by founders of 37Signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson isn’t an ordinary book on entrepreneurship. Perhaps the most radical chapter in the book was the one on hiring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

There are many books written on this subject, but a recent one by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Also a student of reading.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

So much of the focus was on how to produce usable software developers inside the four walls of a classroom. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?". Answer: All self-taught.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. In fact, there are several good books written about Bill Gates and Microsoft. That’s real viral marketing. There is a lot more to this story than I can put here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2023

Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. In fact, there are several good books written about Bill Gates and Microsoft. That’s real viral marketing. There is a lot more to this story than I can put here.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

New book: Web Startup Success Guide. Classic book: Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Q: You’ve stated that the goal of both your new book ( Web Startup Success Guide ) and your new tool for entrepreneurs ( StartupToDo ) is to double an entrepreneur's chance at success: Increase from 10% to 20%. Podcast: Startup Success.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

For example, it’s cheaper and easier to experiment with new marketing channels than it is to find, interview, convince, and manage a second software developer, and plus if you can get a second marketing channel online, that will generate revenue, which in turn means you can afford a second software developer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto « The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital” Part 2 Raising Money Using Customer Development » 8 Responses Jake Lumetta , on November 2, 2009 at 10:49 am Said: Great post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

To anyone who believes his data proves anything please do me a favor and go read The Black Swan – my favorite book of the past 5 years. In the book Taleb rails against people who use faulty models to predict risk and have self satisfied, false data arguments to convince people of their points of view.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2014

She documents the process in her book, #GirlBoss. She is working hard to make the fields of technology, coding and software development open for everyone and her work shows that. Stormy Simon. We all know and love Overstock.com and many people have long forgotten the days when it was simply a clothing reseller.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Some other entrepreneurs who went down the MBA, consulting or banking routes without working at a startup are certainly book smart but haven’t always refined the street-smart skills needed to be an effective entrepreneur. There are many analogies here for software development. He created demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As fall replaces summer, I know I become tempted to curl up with a window view of the falling leaves, a cup of tea, and a good book. When that happens, I like to turn to books that are not only engaging, well-written, and interesting, but also happen to be about business. It’s a great way to enjoy some “me time.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

Also referred to as Book Value . In other words, if you own a software development firm that also trains developers , and you believe that combining the two services will lead to greater revenue generation over the course of time because app development is a currently expanding industry, you can ask for a multiple of 1.5.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? This can take the form of a local university, online courses, going through relevant books, etc. How can we address this risk? What technology research is required?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

As the bookstore CEO, you may see some cost-savings at scale—buying books in bulk, for example — but you are still on the hook for rent per store, employees per store, advertising per store, and so forth. Yes, there are scaling costs like customer service and bandwidth, but they are very different from opening a chain of bookstores.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

That foundational idea, so clearly articulated in books like Lean Thinking, is what originally led me to start using the term lean startup. For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Let’s do another example, this time in technical business software sales instead of fuzzy consumer sales. At Smart Bear we make a tool that enables software developers to easily review changes before they’re shipped, just like an editor reviews a writer’s work before it’s published.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

And that also means giving marketers a good understanding of tech as any development effort is inevitably anchored in 3 things: customers, competitors, and capabilities. Great post and I certainly would enjoy exploring opportunities to discuss further (I am putting a book together and would be interested in your experience).

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OnlyOnce

MAY 12, 2016

Book Short: Scrum ptious . But it’s a book I should’ve read along time ago, and a book that I enjoyed. But it’s a book I should’ve read along time ago, and a book that I enjoyed.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

You won’t find that written in a science book, but it’s true! After that, he spent five years working for a tiny software development firm in Jacksonville Beach. This includes your business goals, but it also includes those who are the dearest to your heart; your family, your friends, and of course your Creator.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Using your area of knowledge, you can create a YouTube channel, write blogs or e-books. From doing things like transcription, video editing, translating books, etc. Software As A Service. SaaS can be the perfect home-based opportunity for you if you are into technology, software problem-solving or software development.

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