YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. One of the basic tenets of Agile software development is responsiveness to change and working on what is identified as most important at a given iteration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

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. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Great strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

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. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Great strategy.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Lesson: You dn’t want your customers to feel locked into using your software. While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Having The Right It is essential for the following reason: Most new products and innovations fail in the market.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products.” The Product Owner. Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Here are the scrum components: Roles: Team, Product owner, Scrum Master and Team. Events: Sprint planning meeting, Release planning, Daily scrum meeting, Review meeting and Sprint retrospective.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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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. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Great strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. The AppToolKit by GoLocalApps lets app developers track and share their app reviews, create smart websites, and is fully integrated with the cloud.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Plenty of sales fall through due to issues beyond the salesperson’s control, and those issues are often a result of the company’s product or service. Modern consumers prefer to do most product research on their own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. A good architect should be judged, not by the beauty of the diagram, but by the quality of the work that the team does using it. Does this sound familiar?

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Services like Volusion and Shopify or DIY products like X-Cart , are numerous and often quite mature. For Non-Trival Tasks It’s Hard to Hire Good Developers The obvious way past this hurdle would be to hire the skills you are missing. A developer co-founder unlocks a lot of unexplored possibilities.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. At best, they could copy. Our advantage was speed.

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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? Same message, same product, same pricing, and still taking a dump on Facebook instead of playing by the new rules. Dozens of people on Answers.OnStartups ask about it so I know I'm not alone.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

In this article, we unveil some points about our software development approaches. Transformify delivers … Software as a Service: SaaS. First of all, let’s talk about what type of software does Transformify ( TFY) deliver? Our development team is very careful in choosing development frameworks and tools.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

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. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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