A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

, but informally I’ve observed the following things, which follow a pattern that can be identified and counteracted: The initial marketing channel quickly saturated , so growth stalled at a non-zero but unsustainably-low rate. ” A technological example makes this clear. Suppose I have a single server that runs my website.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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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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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Technical Review 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

CRM platforms are already firmly ensconced within the sales technology and strategies of most small and midsized businesses. Technology is helping CRM platforms become more sophisticated, and in order for businesses to remain competitive, they must keep pace with their new and emerging capabilities. The power of predictive technology.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2016

It is very important to know and acquire the technical skills required to be successful as an Android Software Developer. While Android apps can be developed using a number of different technologies, most roles are for development using Java and Android Studio in the Integrated development environment (IDE).

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Interesting perspective on why New York City could never compete in tech – [link]. The Key to Non-Profit Website #Design : An Attempt for a Cause – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 45 Stylish Posters – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

It’s no secret that visitor data measured by Alexa, Compete and others is flat our wrong – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 40 Effectively Designed Non-Profit and Charity Web Sites – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Though the waterfall model is specifically to software development, it’s core principles resonate beyond software and into startups across the board.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Everything from software, to digital goods, eCommerce packages, and even newsletter based subscription boxes. For the information and technology industry, subscription models are now a core business model. They just need to build one great software product that continues to engage the audience with consistently updated functionality.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. To sort facts from folk wisdom, I isolated some features that were universal among resumes and would be easy to spot by technical and non-technical people alike and then ran statistical significance tests on them.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 98

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on. Clark: Competing through Social Networks. Anthemos Georgiades , Co-Founder and CEO, Zumper (Real-time home and apartment rental platform; $8.2 Prince: Business History.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

The Differentiators The areas that kill the most time when consuming open source software are: Installation process Documentation Support Usability I’m sure we can all point out a handful of open source projects that have decent documentation and decent usability. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob [.] #2

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Findings Five days later Patrick had 250 responses and enough information to decide on a name, but let the survey run because he was receiving solid information from the other (non-naming) survey questions, as well as leads who were interested in being notified when the app launched. Product naming is hard. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Though the waterfall model is specifically to software development, it’s core principles resonate beyond software and into startups across the board.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 60

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. There are many developers who are not presently active on a Ruby on Rails project who nonetheless have a vulnerable Rails application running on localhost:3000. Technology marches on. by Patrick.

Security 101

Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If you want to build a business that requires software, be prepared to invest a little money. I recently met a junior software developer working for $200/week + room & board at a business geeks house. The business geek needed a working software prototype and the programmer needed experience.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job. Ultimately, the problem is that if you are trying to learn something about the business, and your technology is meant just to support that experiment, 99% of the time it’s not worth it to do things the “right way.&# See [link]. It´s strategic.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

If it is obvious and easy to do (A), then I would conclude that there was no technological advantage, no technological barrier to entry, and would would have to look for a special reason to try. Our value is built on the non-technical stuff, which relies on a network of people and resources that have taken years to develop.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

But once entrepreneurs have their initial team and product in place, a few smart advisors around the table and the social proof required to attract great talent, why would they raise additional dilutive equity capital if they can raise non-dilutive capital through the sale of tokens? Are VCs going to be competing with crypto hedge funds?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

But once entrepreneurs have their initial team and product in place, a few smart advisors around the table and the social proof required to attract great talent, why would they raise additional dilutive equity capital if they can raise non-dilutive capital through the sale of tokens? Are VCs going to be competing with crypto hedge funds?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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? I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. Non of this academic stuff. 2) Do less and iterate.

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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. Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched.

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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. How many things on this list require technology?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Sometimes non-programmers arent very good at anticipating where there might be problems, so it makes sense to give a very high-level overview of what you expect to happen after the first milestone, and the programmer will know if any follow-up is necessary. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. For those of who you do not know what TED events are about. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Technical Review 76

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. For those of who you do not know what TED events are about. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Las Vegas Software Review Bangladesh 40

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

There are many ways to get there that don’t involve VC funding: Micropreneurship is the route I’ve chosen, Joel Spolsky’s done well with a traditional software company and 37signals has done well with a non-traditional software company. For example, you are leaving technology factor out of consideration.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2025

Government software AI software to automate government administrative tasks Target large-scale operations like form processing, application reviews Build solutions for citizen-facing services (DMV, permits, licenses) 2. One million jobs 2.0 The predictions offer significant opportunities for startups across different sectors.

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