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Five Pitfalls to Avoid When Offshoring Software Development

The Startup Magazine

Have you ever looked for software development talent abroad? Doesn’t it seem to you that all the benefits of this business model are too good to be true? 1 Failing to choose a proper business model. 1 Failing to choose a proper business model. Source: Pixabay. 2 Preferring the cheapest.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Surprisingly if you’ve filled out the business model canvas you already know who you need. She started by sketching her business model canvas on a napkin, but somehow the conversation quickly shifted to what was really on her mind. ——-. I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses.

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On-Demand Money Making Business Model for Startups

ReadWriteStart

However, owing to the rise of on-demand businesses – stepping out of our homes for our daily needs seems to be an idea of another era. On-demand business, what is that? The on-demand business model is also known as an access economy or a shared economy. You need to identify what suits your business model.

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How to Build a Successful Subscription Business Model

Up and Running

Gartner predicted that “By 2020, all new entrants and 80% of historical vendors will offer subscription-based business models.” Everything from software, to digital goods, eCommerce packages, and even newsletter based subscription boxes. Software development can be especially competitive.

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A programmer commiserates with journalists

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I feel for the journalist, because I see in them the same geekery that inhabits my fellow software developers. I know, time waits for no one, survival of the fittest, broken business models, you can’t live off useless classifieds, etc etc. They’re different in detail but identical in kind.

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8 Reality Checks That Every Startup Founder Dreads

Startup Professionals Musings

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%. Invariably we were in crisis mode by delivery time, and the common complaint was that “management” always forced unrealistic schedules on developers. The product is behind schedule.

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