Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. I have a bared-teeth, eyes-squinched-shut, shoulders-hunched shameful memory from the early days of Extreme Programming. Crazy, huh?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. These questions are critical background for any developer at any level. How will we find and interview developers?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right.

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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How will we find and interview developers? How do we motivate and manage developers? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? Accounting?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Even though conventional marketing still has significance worldwide, digital marketing is taking over traditional marketing due to its price and analytics. Even smaller startups know the importance due to the increased attacks by hackers. 6- Programming. 2- Digital Marketing Management.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2016

With tax filing deadlines right around the corner, and with tax planning still on everyone’s mind, I thought now would be the perfect time to remind entrepreneurs and executives in the software and tech space of an opportunity that could be the difference in ensuring the future success of their businesses.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Agile project management and team leadership are best showcased by leading a team of developers in completing software development projects. One of the basic tenets of Agile software development is responsiveness to change and working on what is identified as most important at a given iteration. Agile At A Glance.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2012

When Bob Herman founded Tropolis Group in 2010, he decided to finance with credit cards so he could take advantage of a cash-back rewards program and use the bounty to buy supplies for the business. So far, Herman has put about $60,000 on his credit cards, using them mostly to finance software development.

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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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ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

Agile for developers is not Agile for marketers. The differences between how agility manifests in a marketing team vs. a software team can be striking. While software developers prefer more prescriptive methods, like Scrum , marketers borrow heavily from the Kanban framework. Deliver marketing programs frequently.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

7- Making and selling website themes Photo Credit: Sean Stevens If you know how to code, especially front-end development, you can use your skills to make money by making and selling website themes online. WordPress theme development and ThemeForest sales are possible ventures, depending on your skill level. #8-

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 12, 2018

A few years ago, a friend of mine got hired by a company as a software developer. A diligent worker, she was super focused from the moment she sat down at her desk--and so by the time 6PM came around, she had gotten a lot of work done and ready to call it a day. Her young male colleagues had a different approach.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. They have programmed a neural network to create an aesthetics detection algorithm that can see the beauty in photos the same way humans do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 9, 2010

Book Review: Delivering Happiness by @Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh – [link]. Book Review: Delivering Happiness by @Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh – [link]. Book Review: Delivering Happiness by @Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh – [link]. Designing The “World Of Programming” Infographic – [link]. I hope you enjoy these links!

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I monetize the site with Google AdSense and with a Grammarly affiliate program. Due to business, I am free to spend my time and money as I see fit. Financial freedom due to business enables me to grow my business and pay my employees, but it gives my family the quality of life that I want for them. 11- It gives me a Freedom.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things. It lets you manage campaigns and visualize marketing programs. It lets you track and share the ROI of key campaigns.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

One where fewer problems arose and solutions were faster even on continuous delivery of software. It is a unified mechanism for the better alliance between the software team and the IT professionals of an organization. Project managers, software developers, testing professionals, etc should take up this course.

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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. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

It requires strong leadership that inspires change and experimentation, as well as frequent reviews of any obstacles in order to minimize risk efficiently. Is this a software development project? An agile approach is all about working quickly and efficiently to innovate more than the competition.

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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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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. You can go with the react approach if you find your competitors’ business grows due to the implementation of certain strategies, you should adopt it. Your Employee.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It should include doing background checks and reviewing their security rules and practices. Secure Code and Encryption The code is crucial for application security. On the other hand, encryption creates algorithms that convert data into code that can only be seen by the intended receiver.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. In 2020 we applied the same approach to two of our customers: idronect (software to manage drone businesses) and Opsfleet (software development company).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Developed in the early 90’s by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber , Scrum is: Lightweight. Debrief & Share with the Sprint Review.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers. But these barriers are showing some wear and tear.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Government programs. Equity investors.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When I got back to the office, I reviewed some of the other accounts that we were currently working with, and I noticed some patterns emerge. We weren’t winning or losing business to other developers, rather it generally came down to three options: Buy – the client saw the value in our platform and they subscribed to our cloud.

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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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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to create a customer advocacy program (to scale social media) – [link]. Making Sense of Color Codes – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. @jtwinsor says the current agency model is broken – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

How to create a customer advocacy program (to scale social media) – [link]. Making Sense of Color Codes – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. @jtwinsor says the current agency model is broken – [link].

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now we needed to put the tactical programs in place to make this repositioning strategy happen. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

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