Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

The trends shifting in the eLearning sector due to the influence of COVID 19 on schools and colleges across the United States and the world are shifting to a hybridized-online and in-person format. 16- Rise of citizen developers. One of the benefits of the citizen developer movement is that it solves the developer shortage problem.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. When a developer wants to check-in code, this is a very scary moment.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2014

44 engineering management lessons – crowdspring.co/1x7TVkf. 5 Things I Learned Analyzing Buffer’s Revenue Dashboard | Ivan Kreimer – crowdspring.co/1xfTwMG. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. React – crowdspring.co/1yHa1WB.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” 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. Another success.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. Rental subscriptions and late fees were the main drivers of revenue for the organization. Application Development Activity. Let’s dive into these stories.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. Rock Health).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

A VC: MBA Mondays: Revenue Models – Subscriptions – [link]. Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Scaling Your UX Strategy | Robert Fabricant-Harvard Business Review - [link]. Facebook Has Some Tips | Search Engine Land - [link].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Engineering/QA. He basically outsources everything. PR/Marketing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The Pricing Model That Increased Our Free Trial Signups by 358% (and Revenue by 25%) – crowdspring.co/1alarDV. Uber — What’s Fueling Uber’s Growth Engine? 11 Ways Big Companies Undermine Innovation | Scott Kirsner – Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1aksObQ. Hire for potential - crowdspring.co/1aHHrTp.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. Chicago’s startup engine roars | Chicago Tribune - crowdspring.co/16aYZLL. A Startup’s Minimum Revenue Per Employee - crowdspring.co/GNlKua. The Future of Business Models Will Be Centered on Crowds - crowdspring.co/16aTTiD.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Marketing was like me, and we bootstrapped this business to 10 million in revenue through building this traction community where we're bringing our ICP, our audience together around their aspiration and their goals. I'm an engineer. He's like, I can't, don't care.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. From "Think and Grow Rich".

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. billion in revenue annually. It was originally a holding company founded by William C.

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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. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type.

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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. Will the web app be supported to add a new revenue stream? Your Employee. Another most important aspect of any organization is its employees.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s one of many ecommerce software platforms on the market but only the fifth most popular by market share. It’s the reason that 69% of people buy from a brand they know over one that gets better reviews. HubSpot has built its brand to over 100,000 customers and $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in 2020. Take Shopify.

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Transformify

AUGUST 27, 2017

You don’t have the right people on board, you are burning cash and the work is not done, at its worst, your product is already live and you are losing clients due to software bugs and poor user experience. Outsource the development of your MVP. The downside? The downside? We have been there. Hire full-time employees.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. At this point, everyone loses.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. Learning how to code myself was the investment. Connect with Mike — MikeEvans.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

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. Code reviews and pairing Great practices. Throwing out a lot of code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

For example, a site outage may seem like it was caused by a bad piece of code, but: why was that code written? We started with a simple wiki page with a few bullet points of things that new engineers had tripped over recently. We never set out to build a world-class engineering-training process.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. That’s why you need to be simultaneously feeding your growth engine , while monitoring churn and your other startup metrics. Basecamp and Mavenlink) or accounting software (eg.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. I could point to countless examples of mediocre software being unleashed upon the general population, after which people like you and me have to help replace it with something decent. In fact, not having one can be more helpful than anything else.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

You can also allow ads in your app to generate additional revenue. Choosing a Revenue Model & Strategy. Choose a revenue model for your app… Paid App: This is a one-time fee to download the app. Every time your users click an ad in your app, you earn revenue. App Revenue. Image Source. Overall strategy.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Provides real-time access to data insights based on the collaborative knowledge of system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers throughout the world. Cognata (2017) – still in stealth, Cognata is developing Artificial Intelligence simulation engines for automated vehicles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

How should one go about pricing their software product? Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link]. How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams – [link]. Google Shopping: New Revenue Stream Or More Of The Same? The interesting science of happiness – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

Five of Steve Jobs’s Biggest Mistakes | Peter Sims-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Up Close With Facebook Graph Search | Search Engine Land – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Google Revenues: $14.4

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I talk a lot about marketing/sales on this blog because it’s crucial to your success, but in this case there’s a real trade off between growing revenue and keeping your current customers happy. The Bottom of Your Funnel For the sake of this example let’s say you have a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application.

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