Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

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. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. I’m a long way into development and I’m 90% done and we are having issues getting it completed See Symptoms of a Weak Development Team and Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The otherwise identical homes could be customized with the interior designs, embellishments and personal touch of the owners. Today in the tech industry, we’re entering an era of Levittown software, and the change is important for all businesses. This Levittown model is the future of payments software. Sound familiar?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. Outside project work for clients helps to assemble talented development teams. Agencies Need Well-Defined Procedures for Startup Development.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Team – is there or will there be multiple segments in the development team? Do you have a payment gateway?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Team – is there or will there be multiple segments in the development team? Do you have a payment gateway?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2019

It’s actually good that the companies have started realising the importance of the testing phase in the software development life cycle. Software Testing’, or specifically the lack thereof, is one of the answers of why startups fail. Revising the project plan and design post-launch can cost much more if testing is ignored.

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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. As an example of how dumb they were (for those that don’t remember) whenever you changed one field in a browser-designed program the entire screen had to refresh.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? At Smart Bear we make a peer review tool for software programmers; you don't have to be a geek to know that any software development tool company shares the following fear: "What if Microsoft copies us?"

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

: Traditional practice-management software for psychiatrists totally sucks; she knows both the pain points and the existing software first-hand. But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. After the talk typically 5-20 people want to chat one-on-one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

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. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Different firms will have very different skill sets: Do you need user interface design? Graphic design? How many contractors?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Together with IT businessman and investor Rustam Gilfanov, we try to figure out what one needs to take into account when designing a business plan for a startup. Today, this company is the largest software developer for the gaming industry, marketing and finance. To have a breakthrough idea is not enough to launch a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

In addition to its outstanding performance on what it was designed to do, what has surprised researchers about ChatGPT is its emergent behaviors. But OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT) is letting ChatGPT reach out and interact with other applications through an API (an Application Programming Interface.) Even by its creators.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Dosty, an all-in-one pet care app designed to simplify pet parenting, is another startup to keep an eye on in this space. Intelligent Engineering leverages the power of data, AI, and intelligence to improve engineering productivity and eliminate waste within software development cycles. billion by 2026, with a growth rate of 8.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product. 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

MAY 30, 2017

Software development companies face lots of different cases, but generally all of them fall into two main categories: – Client has been nursing the idea of his/her mobile app for a long time but it takes months or even years to bring it to the stage of development estimation. . Idea vs. real app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product. 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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

We employ actual software developers for Level 1 tech support and email, so you're talking to someone who not only can answer every question but can even read the code to get answers. There's a myth that "more features are always more complex," but that's just bad user interface design. Customer: OK, that's useful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

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. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That lets you learn the flaws in your design much earlier. Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. We did that for a lot of reasons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product. 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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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?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

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. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2014

Most IT projects require a variety of skill sets, from design and software development, to hosting and project management. by Julie May, CEO of bytes of knowledge (b:ok). It’s difficult to find someone who is an expert in two or more of these skills areas.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

To successfully compete in today’s digital world, companies must design user experiences that resonate with customers and keep engaged. However, in the race to design smart capabilities, many businesses commit one or more “deadly sins” that can compromise the growth and viability of their business. Don’t ignore the wrath of your users.

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The Next Web

MARCH 16, 2014

What do software development hosting service GitHub, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and entrepreneur Karen Cheng have in common? Karen Cheng learned to design in six months, and subsequently got a job at a great startup. Herbert Lui does marketing for clients such as Pivotal Labs, Busy Building Things, and Renegades.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

And for which I was sure were designed to screw me. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. But the hassle is … you don’t know up front which ones their client really cares about it and which are BS items designed to wear you down in the negotiation.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc. Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. Ogoki Learning Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

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. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

But some coworking spaces really take things a bit higher, offering gorgeously designed spaces in historic buildings, community events, and even office mascots. Designed as a work space for writers, Paragraph takes up a 2,500-square-foot loft space in New York City. Visits start as cheap as $10 for a half day. Caroline Collective.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 7, 2025

Mistral AI launched Mistral OCR, a new API designed for document understanding. OpenAI s ChatGPT macOS app now supports direct code editing within integrated development environments (IDEs). Alibaba Group ‘s Qwen team has released QwQ-32B, an open-source AI model designed for advanced reasoning tasks.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Software development or programming has always been in demand, and this niche is growing faster than other IT skills. 9- UI/UX Designing. Responsive and excellent web designs are vital to effectively operating mobile applications and websites. UX/UI development can make or break a good or terrible user experience.

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