Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R. Small business and startup issues: net neutrality and H.R. Internet Package Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 41 New and Fresh Fonts for Your Design Projects – [link]. 55 Fresh And Free Texture Packs To Spice Up Your Designs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Best Free Sans-Serif Fonts for Designers – [link]. 35 Examples of Typographic Business Card Designs – [link]. End-to-End Experience Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Copyright Laws Every Graphic Designer Should Be Aware Of – crowdspring.co/19Aoeo1. 31 Character Design Illustration and Painting Tutorials – crowdspring.co/1dVjzSz.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 28 Free Typefaces for Web & Graphic Designers – [link]. 30+ Inspirational Book Cover Designs – [link]. 35 More Beautiful Brochure Designs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The above image is a banner ad designed by someone in five minutes using Microsoft Paint. Maybe you don’t need great design for ads after all.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! You’ll find a link to the large version of the map in the Design section below. The Calvin & Hobbes Super-Stupendous Guide to Design – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers, or a mobile smartphone app. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 80+ Very Best Designed Billboard Ads – [link]. 8 Cheat Sheet Wallpapers for Designers and Developers – [link]. Design of the Decade 2010 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 25 Examples of Amazing Packaging Design – [link]. A Designer’s Guide To Effective Proposals And Invoices – [link]. A Designer’s Guide To Effective Proposals And Invoices – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Here’s a simple question, often asked when designing software but more useful when you’re designing your marketing and sales pitch: How are people doing this today without you? Here’s how this gets your marketing and software design off the ground. But a wide net catches few fish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

Software 129

Software Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete 129

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. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

So what about software developers? Developers starting out must choose between selling directly or using a third-party app store, who can do the discovery and back-end for them. Agenda, an Apple design award winner in 2018, focuses on a direct offering first, complemented by an option to go to the App Store.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

They netted more on that deal than Fordham has in it's whole endowment (but still, go Rams!). If you're not matching the students that want to create an online business with computer science students or kids from your design school, you're wasting their time. If you're teaching entrepreneurship, online marketing, design, etc.--anything

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic. Time slipped; fixed overhead continued.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2021

Squarespace does it by leaving a “Start with this design” button in the top right corner of its template demos. Like Snowflake, software developer Atlassian is a big company that solves different problems for different customers. It’s also possible that these demos might have an up-front cost to design, code, and deploy.”.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

By the way, those are the guys who today who have amassed a net worth which is the size of the gross national product of many small countries.”. In designing and launching a new MLM company, don’t criticize your competitors just because you think you could do it better, and certainly don’t be jealous of someone else’s success.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You can learn more about the network’s design and technical specs here. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. Ryan Gentry’s Toolkit for Heretical Web3 Developers. Overcoming design challenges that limit its scalability across chains.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2020

As I’m a software developer by trade, Bitcoin spiked my interest early on as it’s an amazing piece of technology. I want my business to be an asset for my family–something that adds to our net worth and accelerates our other goals. Photo Credit: David Irwin Design. Get moving and free your mind!

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

My first job out of college was working as an Implementation Consultant at a small tech company, helping onboard clients onto our software platform. Then I started working as a business analyst for a small health tech company in Austin, helping to design software.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Although young companies rarely measure profitability this repeatedly, more mature companies usually can bring from five to ten percent of revenues to the bottom line in the form of net profit. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic. Email readers continue here.]

Silicon Valley 85

Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85

Reid Hoffman

JULY 30, 2020

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that during economic downturns like the Dot Com crash and the financial crisis of 2008, more than 100% of net job growth comes from companies that are less than five years old. We face a decade of recovery, and entrepreneurship will be needed to lead the way out of this recession.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business. You may have heard the quote: ‘The PM is the CEO of their product.’

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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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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup? And that’s the position you want to be in.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

So I spent time honing PPC, SEO, a new design, a new cart, finding more dropshippers…and I finally hit on the big low price guarantee revelation I wrote about in my blog. Except that four-figures in sales resulted in just a few hundred dollars in net profit after cost of goods sold. I was pleased to say the least.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Whys is designed to avoid these nebulous arguments. The net effect of all this was to make new engineers incredibly productive right away – in most cases, we’d have them deliver code to production on their very first day. So far, it's been a net win to keep supporting it.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. Graphic Design - Here’s another danger zone where developers cost themselves money by trying to design their own graphics. Please, I beg you, pay someone to design your web site.

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