Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Client work serves as an additional source of revenue to form new startups. This outside work provides a valuable source of revenue able to be used to fund operations. Over time, this revenue reduces the dependency on outside venture capital sources. Why It’s Critical to Choose a Modern Software Development Technology.

Incubator 188

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. In summary – I have been involved with software development for 25 years.

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Software Part-Time VPE Engineer Leadership 344

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

I'm a great example of someone who wasn't an authority on anything , but built that authority over time to the point where now my company (Smart Bear) is untouchable as the leader in both revenue and ideas in the area of peer code review. But how does authority convert to revenue? Common vision. Insider knowledge.

Software Review 325

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) You get an introduction to reimbursement early here, while the details are described later in the “Revenue” lecture.).

Intellectual Property 290

Intellectual Property Lean IP Open Source 290

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business. Great strategy. Do it yourself and barter for services.

Burn Rate 232

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 232

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? The question is: How can you own your little piece of the world; Not: How can you wrest $100m of revenue from a big guy. Dozens of people on Answers.OnStartups ask about it so I know I'm not alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Pay people with equity or future revenue. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Focus precious cash only on producing revenue for your startup business. Great strategy. Do it yourself and barter for services.

Burn Rate 231

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 231

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

Burn Rate 258

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? years of software development. We’ve been delighted with 8VC as a co-investor. In short — how the hell did we raise $30 million?

Technical Review 268

Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

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. If so, what is a palatable percentage to offer the main developer/programmer? Saitek Executive.

Software Development 79

Software Development Software Developers Software Review Software 79

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. (If For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills.

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Founder Intellectual Property Business Model 335

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The company landed one big customer representing 80% of total revenue, but that customer canceled. When a company has revenue but is susceptible to the fatal afflictions above, I call it “brittle.” Another is to prioritize accelerating sales until that customer represents a percentage of revenue that you can stomach.

Software Review 294

Software Review Channel Revenue Non-Compete 294

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Software development? Peshev focuses the majority of his time on running his business and leading distributed tech teams at DevriX of 50+ people crafting high-scale WordPress solutions optimized for revenue. For instance, what is it that you need the most? Is it help with marketing? Or maybe with sales? Product management?

Distribution 264

Distribution Vertical Business Plan Software Developers 264

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. We were able to crank out software code at a much greater pace than was ever possible for.

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Web AJAX Distribution HTML 355

The Startup Magazine

JULY 8, 2022

If you’re a software development company, you’ll need to secure the services of a software monetization solution provider. You may also require sufficient server space to deal with significant volumes of data beyond customer and technical support representatives, marketing staff, and business development.

Startup 158

Startup Technical Support Software Developers Software Development 158

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

This method branches off into two schools of thought: Past Earning Capitalization – this suggests that the expected revenue in the future can be predicted by a record of the company’s past earnings, once undue revenue or expenses are accounted for and multiplies the projected earnings by a capitalization factor.

Valuation 162

Valuation CPA Software Review .Net 162

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

See, we don't line our pockets with that revenue, we spend it making you maximally effective. When you have a problem, we connect you directly with developers instead of hiding behind off-shore Level 1 support. Your employee's time is not free. Working around bugs is not free. We answer the phone on the first ring. Let's get specific.

Open Source 239

Open Source Dilution Software Developers Software Development 239

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And I can even imagine cases where it might burn more cash than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

Lean 263

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 263

Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

Apple and Facebook are both platforms , in the sense that their software and user networks are utilized by countless software developers to build their own businesses. billion to developers and Apple paid out something like $2B or so. Apple generated nearly $130B in revenue in 2011. June 5, 2012.

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Java Flash Software Azure 170

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. Calgary employers found software developer and engineer as the most in demand. developed the Ojibway People and Language App. billion in revenue.

Canada 167

Canada Hiring Artificial Inteligence Software Developers 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Agile marketing takes its inspiration from Agile software development, which is how 90% of companies develop software today. One client said it helped them because they hadn’t made long-term commitments to advertising buys, and it was easy to cut back spending when their revenues declined.

Agile 264

Agile Marketing Campaign Sales 264

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Consider investing in these four software categories to improve business performance and bring in more revenue. Marketing automation software. Despite their relatively small operational footprint, SMBs can still manage highly complex jobs, ranging from internal software development projects to client-facing deliverables.

Small Business 173

Small Business Agile Software Software Developers 173

Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Part 7: Revenue Streams in Life Sciences. Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences. Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences.

Lean 250

Lean Algorithm Customer Development IP 250

Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Billing and revenue collection. Whether you provide an online subscription service, or sell products in a store, you need to consistently and economically sell your product and collect revenue to survive. It all has to be written down and maintained.

Startup 187

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 187

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. In April 2015, Neil took things a step further and ran a live marketing experiment: within 12 months, he would build a business that would generate $100,000 of revenue a month.

Software Review 212

Software Review Marketing PPC Hosting 212

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Rental subscriptions and late fees were the main drivers of revenue for the organization. Blinded by its advertising revenue , Yahoo let customer experience take a backseat. Multiple tools and technology available can enable innovation in organizations, no-code software development being a pioneer in them.

Software Review 190

Software Review Application Development Technical Review Bankruptcy 190

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software. Dave had been spending most of his time managing the part-time developers, who were primarily working on future products, instead of billing hours to clients.

Common Stock 213

Common Stock Boston Europe Software Developers 213

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2014

It''s a much stronger pitch when a software developer reaches out to another software developer and says "Hey, I saw your profile and it might be a very good fit with this company I''m advising" than when you do it and you look like the masses of MBAs looking for code monkees.

Founder 127

Founder Software Developers Software Development Venture Capital 127

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

Regularly monitor the progress and results achieved through lead identification software, making necessary adjustments to optimize your lead generation efforts. Case Studies: Success Stories of Lead Identification Software 6.1

Lead Generation 146

Lead Generation Software Review Software Technical Review 146

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

On the other side of the equation, there are a growing number of design, development, and digital media shops who are hungry to expand, or swap focus, to building a company that’s more than just a service shop. The post Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (1 of 2)? Can a shop work for just equity?

Software Development 60

Software Development Software Developers Software Developer 60

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.

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Software Development Software Developers Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Trada, like many of the companies we’ve invested in, had spectacular growth (both revenue, customers, and headcount) in 2011. It’s an extremely tight hiring market for software developers right now. Reference check – oh man how many times do I have to learn this lesson.

Software Developers 136

Software Developers Software Development Startup Hiring 136

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The rise and fall of companies such as Zynga and Rovio, developers of casual, mobile games “FarmVille” and “Angry Birds”, respectively, highlights the fickle nature of the consumer gaming market. TBR believes the ideas of these opportunities has merit, but are peripheral pursuits for Microsoft.

Acquisition 157

Acquisition Azure Merger Sweden 157

ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

After analysing our case studies and CRM, we saw that 73% of total revenue came from these two segments. In the first quarter of 2020 we grew our revenue by 50% and were able to double revenue compared to 2019, significantly decreasing the sales cycle length and growing the ACV—all the while the world faced the consuqneces of a pandemic.

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B2B Sales Cycle Belgium IP 150