The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2019

While a good portion of this is due to the low labor costs in countries such as India or China, there are benefits to outsourcing that go beyond time and price. The post Here’s How Outsourcing Software Development Brings Benefits Beyond Time and Cost appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Review the code being built. Investors my tell you that, but what they can look at your product on paper and tell what it does and they will understand if it can be built. The "Questions" post is probably the most important. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

Partner 269

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 269

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

As a business advisor, I have to recommend even to established companies that they review and revamp their competitive strategy now, even if it appears to be working today. It’s now more intense than ever, with the cost of entry going down, and new players easily able to join the fray from anywhere in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Offshore 238

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

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Partner Software Review CTO Hire Equity 258

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

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Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 240

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The outright and abject failure of a software development project is a surprisingly common occurrence, and the reasons for a specific project’s failure tend to revolve around three easily avoidable mistakes. Unreasonable Time Restrictions and Budgetary Limitations. Unreasonable Time Restrictions and Budgetary Limitations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

Partner 230

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term.

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Cofounder Software Review CTO Hire Founder 221

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Here’s a simple question, often asked when designing software but more useful when you’re designing your marketing and sales pitch: How are people doing this today without you? Here’s how this gets your marketing and software design off the ground. Because it’s so much easier to poke around code on 8.5

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Accounting?

CTO 225

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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. Indeed, rapid cycles lead to very short release times and low costs of change. I interrupted them and gave them “the spiel: about TDD.

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Product Development Software Review Technical Review Developer 167

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

MakeSpace doesn’t need large numbers of local storage facilities near your house, so it has a greatly reduced cost structure for its facilities. Today our physical costs are less than 50% of traditional storage providers and that’s trending towards 20% with volume. years of software development.

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Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed. That died with waterfall software development. How will you go to market in a cost effective way to achieve similar margins as your competitors. Ditto for enterprise software companies.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The software outsourcing sector in India is flourishing, offering organizations low-cost solutions. In this article, we’ll look at the top 10 Indian software outsourcing firms of 2023. Let’s explore the best software outsourcing companies in India. They provide cutting-edge and adaptable digital solutions.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

This is where lead identification software comes into play. In this article, we will explore the importance of lead identification software and how it can help businesses streamline their lead generation efforts. Lead identification software offers a powerful solution to this challenge. Let’s dive in!

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Lead Generation Software Review Software Technical Review 146

Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

Partner 179

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 179

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. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

Software Developers 79

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Software 79

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc? How do we balance concerns vs. cost? How will we address these without significant cost?

CTO Hire 231

CTO Hire Technical Review Developer Software Review 231

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. These costs are largely fixed.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review United States Software Review China 170

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

One of the biggest mistakes a company routinely makes is waiting until a bill is past due to begin collection efforts. A good credit department reduces bad debt and past due accounts by getting proactive about debts collected, preferably before the due date. Here’s how to begin collection efforts before the due date: 1.

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Software Review Software Development Software Developers Software 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”).

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Software Review Startup Florida Technical Review 185

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While employees are often inspired by success stories and case studies of triumphant innovation tales of large companies, the cost of not innovating is often overlooked. Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes.

Software Review 190

Software Review Application Development Technical Review Bankruptcy 190

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right.

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China Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 67

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment. Here are four major reasons why nearshore is often a solution that provides the best of both worlds: Cost Effectiveness.

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Dominican Republic Offshore Costa Rica Jamaica 165

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

With new project management software that’s enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities, teams can be more prepared than ever before by receiving reports in real time on a range of KPIs, from schedule performance to project profitability. 122 million is wasted due to lacking project performance.

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Development 168

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 232

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 231

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term.

Partner 140

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 140

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

Technical Review 218

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder Social Network 218

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Technical Review 120

www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. Keeping inventory costs money. Inventory may have other costs too, like spoilage. Because there are costs associated with running out of things, too. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. That code is inventory.

Software Review 85

Software Review Software Database New York City 85

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a good idea to back up all documents, for example by using an external drive or cloud software. Even if you are not found liable, a legal case can bear considerable costs, both in terms of time and money. Apart from following protocols and being diligent, it’s worth considering the insurance needs for your profession.

Intellectual Property 165

Intellectual Property Software Review Cofounder Architecture 165

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.

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Software Review Channel Revenue Non-Compete 294

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. To generate greater revenue, one could adopt three key principles: Price one’s product or service in relation to its benefit and not costs of production; Offer customers a limited range of prices; and.

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Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup 100

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60