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.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

With new virtual and augmented reality technologies emerging, the merger of traditional and digital media is more than just on the horizon. It’s an exciting technology, so here are ways to prepare yourself for the revolution. It’s an exciting technology, so here are ways to prepare yourself for the revolution.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

by Marcus Harris, Software Litigator at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. In fact, the Ponemon Institute reported that 61% of breaches hit small to medium-sized businesses last year, in part due to many of these growing companies underestimating or downplaying the risk of cyber security threats. Regularly update device software.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Why Innovators Love Constraints | Harvard Business Review – [link]. How Monoprice Is Eating The Tech World From The Inside Out – [link]. Avoiding Undue Diligence: My Strange Approach To Angel Investing – [link]. An Ode to Distributed Teams | iDoneThis blog – [link]. Penn – [link].

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Categories: Coding. Best Of Both Worlds: Mixing HTML5 And Native Code. There are three principal ways to develop a mobile solution: native code, hybrid mobile app, mobile Web app. Much of this native code is non-visual in nature, simply passing data back to the HTML5 layer of the app, where it is rendered to the user.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Ukraine is a country rich in talents in the technology industry. Most of the startups in the tech industry, however, are centered around software. It is understandable since software development requires less time and fewer resources (particularly financial ones) than prototyping a piece of hardware. Hideez Key.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. Anyway, let’s dive into this topic more, starting with technical debt. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

making technical recruiting suck less. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. Aline Lerner's Blog. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

web development projects. Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

Naturally, a technology like generative AI has the potential to transform and impact many industries, if not all. To me, however, the entertainment, media, and gaming industry seems the most obvious industry to be disrupted by this technology, far beyond any other. Create text/code, images, audio and video.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to Atos, a European multinational information technology services and consulting business, $50 billion is invested in FinTech annually. Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. billion by 2030.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Lloyed Lobo (07:26): I truly believe that I embody it because if you think about it, marketing is taking up, look at 2023 because we went through this boom tech boom and then the interest rates went up and so-called recession. Marketing is taking a bloodbath in 2023.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. The technical side is fairly easy, and many people could do it.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2021

A good example here is the furniture factory that produces and distributes its own products. What Is a Software Gap and How It Ruins Businesses? Many companies already have pretty big infrastructures, others have very little software footprint, but they all unite one thing. Example of Software Gap.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. Probably the first ‘’red flag’’ was Apple’s announcement that the company had revised its revenue guidance due to a slowdown at manufacturing sites in China as well as reduced demand by Chinese consumers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Tech Start-Ups: Take the Money and Build | by @tullman – crowdspring.co/1jvoIEu. 29 Tips for Entrepreneurs & Women in Tech | Tech Cocktail – crowdspring.co/1oj9QIU. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. Re/code – crowdspring.co/1hYEli4.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. TECHNOLOGY.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’ve talked before about problems I see with the US education system in both my post about Peter Thiel’s 20-under-20 initiative and also my review of Waiting for Superman. Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs. But you can get on the pre-release list here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). Our code pushes take another six minutes. Since these two steps are pipelined that means at peak we’re pushing a new revision of the code to the website every nine minutes. On average we deploy new code fifty times a day.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. ‘After all,’ they think ‘you code it up and sell it a thousand times – it’s like printing your own money! The third was something I hadn’t expected.&#

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. MIT Technology Review – [link]. Why Microsoft’s Reorganization Is Not About Technology | by Gene Marks, Forbes – [link]. Increase Your Team’s Curiosity | Harvard Business Review – [link].

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Large tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple recognize that the multi- trillion dollar health care market is ripe for disruption and have poured billions of dollars into the space. Healthcare on Your Wrist.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Over time, such teams either explode due to irreconcilable differences or dramatically slow down. As I found out to my dismay, this is a dangerous game: in many cases, you’re asking trained professionals to violate their own code of best practices, for the good of the company. Any excesses are likely to be moderated by others.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? The programming language is important because we provide the source code with every purchase…which created one heck of a mess for us a few weeks back.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To illustrate the extent to which a company’s name is largely irrelevant to its ultimate success, let’s examine the genesis of six successful technology companies’ names. eBay – Derived from Founder Pierre Omidyar’s consulting company, Echo Bay Technology Group.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

The majority of the unemployed were absorbed by the high-tech sector. Due to rapid growth of the Israeli market, and of the high-tech, industrial and construction sectors in particular, a further drop in unemployment is expected in coming months. BROADCOM BUYS ISRAELI SECURITY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER SC SQUARE.

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