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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

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.

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Y U No Kickstart?

Andrew Payne

It’s not the endless beta-test that software developers have, but it moves in that direction. In this case, users bought into a vision that turned out to be much harder to realize than expected (namely, enabling a vibrant, non-proprietary, micro-console game development ecosystem).

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The Future of Remote Work: Navigating the Talent Crisis, Harnessing Diversity & AI Upskilling

Duct Tape Marketing

So if you think about it, large companies were offshoring, I don't know, 30, 40 years ago they started. Number one, more small and mid-sized businesses being open to offshoring. What that means is if they have a job that can be done remotely and it's not too specialized, let's say like a software developer, they just start us.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

When outsourcing, remember that lawyers are like VCs…it matters less who’s name is on the front door than who you work with. For the vast majority of software startups, the actual code / development process is infrequently a competitive advantage; ergo, you ought to consider outsourcing.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

Core Business Expenses Business Filing Fees - This includes your business license, fictitious name statement, and reseller license fees (if applicable). As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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