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Burning Platform: Developers, Developers.

deal architect

In the 31st episode of the series I am joined by James Governor, co-founder of Redmonk. In September 2000, Steve Ballmer was ahead of most executives in loudly cheering for software developers. The video below leads off with his exuberance.

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

The startup industry is littered with stories of founders being taken for a ride by their app developer. The key to choosing an app developer is research. Here are four critical questions to ask both yourself and an app developer before making the decision to engage them to design and deliver your app.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

Consequently, nearly every founder is attempting to weave an AI narrative into their ventures, regardless of its necessity or fit, which will likely lead to an unhealthy market environment and potentially drown out genuine opportunities. A less encouraging similarity is the deluge of capital and the suspension of disbelief in the AI space.

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Five Recruiting Metrics Every Founder Should Track

View from Seed

Ask a founder of a growing startup what they need most, and you’ll often get an answer along the lines of, “We need great people, and we need them fast.”. Founders need to make sure the quality of the startup’s offerings remains high and provide adequate sales and service support for prospective customers and new users.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. And it may work.

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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 10 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. — Will you ever get 2000? I hope so, but most companies that do get 100 never get 2000. Tom Cargill, Bell Labs.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business.