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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

Finally, review the apps they have built. Fortunately, there are now a wealth of customer review sites for services based businesses, many of which are verified. A B2B research, ratings and reviews platform located in Washington, DC, they provide in-depth client reviews, data-driven content and vetted market leaders.

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Software Inventory

www.joelonsoftware.com

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. How is software like a factory?” An implementation process (writing code). A deployment process (sending code to customers, putting it on web server, etc). (PS No it isn’t.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

We use QR codes to simplify the process. With 7 billion people on the planet today, there are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions, up from just 720 million in 2000. The mobile web will become what desktop Internet became in the 1990’s – the standard platform for anyone doing business. 62% look at online peer reviews.

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

Server Response Time (SRT) is the amount of time between when a web client makes a request (e.g., More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. Read reviews and ask for recommendations before you make your decision.

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Millennials got Mail: 6 ways to successfully target the ‘always connected’ generation through email

The Next Web

age group varies according to source, but the generation is roughly composed of those born between 1981 and 2000, according to Pew Research. Millennials are a generation of tweeting, SnapChatting, friending, checking-in, texting, selfie-taking diverse individuals interweaving the Webs of cultivated collective online profiles.

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