Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. I’ve often asked myself why intrapreneurs like Don Estridge and peers from CDC, Burroughs, UNIVAC, and Wang are not household names today.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 million, then $5.9m, $7.7m We were family.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Do you have a name, a logo, and have you thought about brand positioning? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team? Fulfillment?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do you really need that full-time assistant, regular bookkeeper, and big-name attorney? The components are simple - expenses and income.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. From the time you set up your account and put your tracking code on your site, Google Analytics, starts to capture and display a lot of data. Events can be implemented without coding through Google Tag Manager. That’s awesome!

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While you may not be able to address all of them, you can work with your dev team to find and fix the more technical areas: Slow application logic : Use a code profiling tool to help determine which dependencies are being used on your site and how long each of those dependencies takes to load. Image source ).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The growth of parcel services has been boosted due to – Free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between various countries and the development of special economic zones (SEZ) in different economies. It would need to display its brand name, color theme, and logo. . Final Thoughts.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 5, 2016

That’s why optimizers conduct quality assurance on sites, landing pages, test treatments, email campaigns, you name it… to make sure they work the way they’re supposed to. User testing is… Examining how real people perceive and use your site / software. via Develop With Purpose). There is a difference.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

To name a few: Users’ throats got sore after a while, loud working environments made speech-to-text unappealing, and lack of privacy would be an issue for many would-be users. I thought that something this clever and unique deserved its own name so that it would not be conflated with traditional prototypes. Another success.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I liked that Andy Jenkins and his development team are information marketers themselves, so they know and have experienced what problems info marketers face and have added really cool features specifically for some unique situations. You can follow Yaro on Twitter and see him in action at Yaro.TV.

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2020

That’s why optimizers conduct quality assurance on sites, landing pages , test treatments, email campaigns, you name it—to make sure they work the way they’re supposed to. After all, if you don’t conduct proper quality assurance, you might declare a vastly better treatment a loser due to a technical problem.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Marcel Petitpas (01:17): I, you know, you didn't even ask me how to pronounce my last name, which is the mistake most hosts make. John Jantsch (01:30): Well as somebody whose last name, uh, ends with five consonants, you know, I'm very, very aware of people's last names.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling. Newer Post.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. Business development teams can use CRMs statistics and reporting features to inform decisions and track potential leads.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Between the long traditions of forum and chat software and the rapidly growing areas of social networking services, you can build a significant community online without much in the way of hardcore development. Ultimately being a developer is not an essential criterion of founding an online startup. But it sure does seem to help!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Even worse, when it comes time to "fix it right" the team gets pushback from the business leaders, who want more features. If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. First, you need to optimize your app’s name, as it carries the most weight amongst your keywords.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s not enough to review the localized website and decide it’s not offensive. Your team would then have to spend more time editing code to make sure everything is corrected. If it passes, the build moves on to the testing team, and if it fails, it returns to the development team.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

If you are starting new, or going to touch the code on your website for any reason, please, in the name of Thor, Superman and Dilbert, use a tag management solution. It focuses on complete mobile customer experience management, with elements of the platform supporting developers, marketers and your tech/operations folks.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business. Ask developers if they’ve been involved with a previous web startup and what their role was in the startup.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

In the past I have recommended Web Link Validator from REL Software as something we have had a positive experience with. It can do a lot more than check missing tags, see the website for all the features, so all around a good piece of software to have. Another cool benefit is that the async code collects more data, more accurately.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

More About The Agency Certification Intensive Training: Learn more about the Agency Certification Intensive Training here Take The Marketing Assessment: Marketingassessment.co Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! We were using multiple softwares to fulfill a service. Like this show? That was never the intent.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Our guest and COO of Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons, shares his favorite online tools to get your business up and running. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Once you have your business name, you need to look good doing it. Jonathan: “12 Signs, Me Need to Hire a Manager.”

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. The translator rejects or approves.

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