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. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 18, 2024

Moreover, increased employee engagement and morale are often observed due to clearer expectations and structured processes. Regular internal audits and reviews are essential for identifying non-conformities and areas requiring improvement. Consistent product and service quality are crucial for maintaining a competitive edge.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Email hygiene is the set of practices that reduces your startup’s vulnerability to email-based attack as well as non-malicious (read: accidental) data loss. Don’t apologize for this — you’re only doing your due diligence. You’ll feel more capable once you have it under your belt, too. Adopt Strict Email Hygiene Standards.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 20, 2019

They may be membership-based or non-membership based. As organizations grow and evolve, and the world they operate in grows and changes, the board is responsible for reviewing the changes and making adjustments that are in the best interests of the organization. All organizations are unique in their own right.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Self-regulation, in addition to being the responsible course of action, will protect short-term rental owners from incurring fines as well as potentially losing their lodging license due to non-compliance. Fewer noise complaints means happier neighbors and a lower risk of fines. Remote locations are hot, and compliance will follow.

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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. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We're going to get reviews on blogs.". Making Oprah cry.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve Google tries to cover a variety of topics, from the bare minimum, “Can you code?”

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

Dissatisfied employees won’t work hard to impress you, leave your start-up in droves and write bad reviews for your company. Incorrectly identifying workers as exempt or non-exempt. If a non-exempt employee is treated as an exempt employee, they miss out on overtime or an hourly wage, which will result in wage theft.

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Steve Blank

MAY 27, 2010

After being in business for all of seven months, one of our first deals at Epiphany was with a software company called Visio , (now owned by Microsoft.) Some of them would have limited our ability to sell to other software companies. I remember when I encountered bullet #1 on Walkers list. You Can’t Sign This Deal.

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ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2016

User generated reviews in general are tremendously influential in persuading people to buy. One study found that 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and 72% of consumers say positive reviews make them trust businesses more. How Do People Consume Product Reviews?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Contract management software can speed this process, allowing you to use templates and negotiation tools to quickly draw up these typical documents. Some employment contracts do include clauses that could be considered employment policy issues, such as outlining the hours to be worked or dress codes. Not Updating Employment Contracts.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Competing businesses. Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. If you conduct some intricate research (detailed below), you may be able to identify the IP address of competing businesses. Wired refers to these as “hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software.” Software can help. (

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. Global e-commerce, lower living costs and higher living standards will create a renaissance for non-city places of great beauty. They’ll leverage their geographic monopolies and localised products, sell to global market places and compete effectively with cities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Others will now buy your travel magazine over a travel book, for example, which competes with both your magazine and the video individually. Cross endorsement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Best of luck, Your Software." (OK,

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Although there are many collaboration tools (like Slack and Trello) available, they do have a learning curve that can be hard for non-technical folks. They also complain about managers favoring in-office staff, even if they are less competent. In fact, extended hours due to lack of discipline can play havoc with their personal lives.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Programmer Competency Matrix. Able to recognize and code dynamic programming solutions, good knowledge of graph algorithms, good knowledge of numerical computation algorithms, able to identify NP problems etc. Understands what assembly code is and how things work at the hardware level. Software Engineering. Programming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

The low-fidelity nature of the deliverable also encourages non-designers to join the discussion. Demos have become our design reviews.” The conversation around this sketch provides enough directional insight for the rest of the team to voice any concerns, to begin the estimation process and to start coding.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. Meanwhile Oculus Quest 2 drove 156% growth in Facebook’s non advertising revenue and is on track to be the first mainstream VR headset. The “creator economy” will prosper in 2021.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. Ideas (and in many cases the code itself) are not worth as much as we think.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Others will now buy your travel magazine over a travel book, for example, which competes with both your magazine and the video individually. Cross endorsement.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

It does not create new markets or value markets, but develops existing ones with better value , allowing companies to compete against each other’s sustaining improvements. Customers flocked to Apple, and the company had record-breaking profits with its hardware, software and service. Sustaining Innovation Defined.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know). Well…I’ve hit that point reviewing websites. I’ve recorded stacks of site review screencasts over the past four years, and I’m ready to take it to a whole ‘notha level. Any non-personal website will work.

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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. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Publish now, see if Google likes it, then improve and optimize once it has the ability to compete for quality keywords. At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category. You want developers to create templates that enable marketers to build many pages without coding.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

They have a really cool business model where they summarize non-fiction books into 15-minute read or listen. The team at Twelve believes that it will ultimately be able to compete with fossil fuels and will replace petrochemicals on a large scale, which will meaningfully cut global energy emissions. 11- Blinkist. 19- Hy-Vee.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. Chelsea started her first business when she was 12, and her first non-profit when she was 13. Reviewed performance of BDRs and Sales. Reviewed data on bot conversion, had a discussion about % of future that’s managed services vs product.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It is evident that nothing else will compete with the digital world and digital solutions. No-code and low-code platforms are making it easier to develop an app, build a platform, or build digital businesses that were once saved for people with in-depth technical knowledge or deep enough pockets to hire them.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

When starting a new business you should consider the potential industries your company may have the best opportunity to compete in. How to start a non-emergency medical transport business. It’s often cheaper and more sustainable to build your app or software somewhere else. Resources for starting a transportation business.

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

July 20th, 2010 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup? I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. I recommend it. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. I agree with Dustin.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. I’m dropping everything non-portfolio related in the next few weeks and setting my sights on righting my wrong. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

If you’re a non-profit…. Kiva is a non-profit organization that partners with microfinance institutions (Kiva’s “field partners”) in third-world countries to offer small loans to budding entrepreneurs. EarlyShares is a pretty sophisticated fundraising platform looking to compete with traditional venture capital firms.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

Today, my software company is profitable and staffed by exceptional individuals. I saw an opportunity to create a firm that would be significantly more prepared to compete in the LED lighting industry. 7- Lost a job due to ill health. 11- Enjoy software products. I have no superiors who can tell me no. 20- Improve lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reality of CAC is both the when you scale your acquisition “channel” costs usually go up plus when you find a great channel others notice it and drive up the costs as they compete with you in that channel. Enterprise software companies also should measure CAC even though it, too, is an imprecise science. The first input is CAC.

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