Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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readwrite.com

APRIL 25, 2013

It was definitely surprising," said Ashish Kuthiala, Electric Cloud’s director of marketing. When I was a software engineer, I remember losing time to meetings when I’d rather be coding. Others may have, well, other pastimes. (As As in this iconic XKCD comic , for instance.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

But OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT) is letting ChatGPT reach out and interact with other applications through an API (an Application Programming Interface.) First, you should definitely care. Should you care? Should you worry?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach. That died with waterfall software development. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

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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. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.”

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. If you are a non-technical founder, you will definitely need help to do this. Then comes the in-person interviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Anyone can use easy to use tools from a company like MobileMonkey to create chatbots in minutes without any help from software developers. You don’t need to know how to code or have a full-time team of software developers. You don’t need to know how to code to launch a Facebook Messenger chatbot.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

So, here are the three branches of Finacial Technology you definitely should know about, the most attractive ones for Venture Capitalists: Consumer Lending (raised $16B in 2016). With over 17 years of experience, Andriy successfully applies his versatile skill set to help businesses kickstart, develop and succeed.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A personal decision is an emotional one by definition. Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers. At times, this is because an individual’s motivations aren’t entirely financial, but additionally, as a non-institution, they are quite literally always personal. Affinity by function.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ? For me – I would definitely start by soul-searching – do I want to still be involved? Do I trust the founders?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Why Software Development Goes Bad So Often and What You Can Do About It Most likely you've heard the staggering statistics on failure of software projects with different reports showing 28% success rates. Then, he explores how several startups have leveraged those services and data in interesting ways.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Maybe you have questions about the types of developers you need and even whether you need a Startup CTO or Developer or both. Or you want to know about whether you have the right Web Development Company. Or what else you might need in Document Your MVP for a Developer.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

There are a bunch of questions in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything , Startup Founder Developer Gap , and in Startup CTO or Developer. If you are a non-technical founder, you will definitely need help to do this. Then comes the in-person interviews.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2016

When a project owner seeks for a software development company, they often mention in their inquiries that they want to deal with a very professional developer. But what kind of service do they actually want their developers to provide? Professional software developers. Professional project owner.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2010

I’ve talked before about initial conversations with founders and the questions I’m likely going to ask Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. And you definitely should have ideas around important proof points for the business. Part of those questions are around Startup Metrics.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? Ask them about your concept.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. I definitely check people out using LinkedIn. However, it definitely has served as a hub. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I received an inquiry from a reader of my blog and thought I would provide some thoughts, but would definitely welcome input: I am an unpaid CTO of a small startup. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ? For me – I would definitely start by soul-searching – do I want to still be involved? Do I trust the founders?

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

And there are definitely other service providers who provide things like marketing services who are interesting, so its not all service providers, its more like the wealth management types. Unfortunately, a lot of networking events attract more service providers and people out of work than interesting people.

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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.? " There are definitely cases where the lead developer grows into a CTO. How can we address this risk? What technology research is required? Accounting?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2020

One of the major benefits of using a SOM approach is that product development costs are drastically decreased and technical risk is also reduced. If you’re in software development, you’ve likely heard of the Scrum method. Other advantages of production-ready SOMs include more CPU choices and a smaller footprint.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Requirement analysis is one of the earliest and most important stages of software development. It not only helps you scope everything out but helps you to communicate your needs to your software development team. .

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 15, 2012

They definitely can’t. Just like you take a resume and you don’t look at it and go, “Wow, you were in software development for five years. Yeah and we definitely should. Having said there, there definitely is such a thing as a customer that signs up and they don’t complain. Nick: Yeah.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Think you might fit this definition of entrepreneurial success? That doesn’t mean you need to be a software developer or an engineer — though that can be a big advantage, depending on your industry — but you must be comfortable with technology in general. Just ask yourself these seven questions: 1. Does your family come first?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2017

The generation that focuses on mobile technology such as smartphones, tablets and laptops is definitely Gen Z. Nowadays, most of the Gen Z has basic IT skills, as well as knowledge about developing mobile applications. The app market is going to change with the influx of new designers and developers from Gen Z. Going mobile.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2020

Analyze the other business aspects and identify which affect or disrupt your business development. Allow them to be part of the software development process. This will definitely spark a unique idea. Your Employee. Another most important aspect of any organization is its employees.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. It leads to scope creep, due to lack of definite end-date. Before adopting the methodology one should be sure when it’s best to use scrum and how to make the best utilisation out of this methodology.

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