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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. The developer – who created his first product, a CMS and eCommerce web app back in 2008 – says that development on his product will never be done.

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What’s FinTech, And What Does It Mean For Your Business?

YoungUpstarts

It offered independence from financial establishments, which in the wake of 2008 were universally considered unreliable, and mere convenience. If you’re passionate about a business idea, develop a product’s prototype; come up with a catchy description for it, explain clearly its benefits and launch a Kickstarter campaign.

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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5 Essential Guidelines To Selecting The Right CRM For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

By keeping in mind these guidelines, you will be able to select the best CRM software for your startup. With an experience of working for more than 10 years in the industry, Rohit Thakral runs a mid-size software development company spread in 4 countries, with development centre in 3 of them, since 2008.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Why it’s great: Springwise is a great website to promote your app or software. They have a huge following of app and software developers, so you’ll surely get some great exposure. Since its founding in 2008, the site has been committed to inspiring, educating, and featuring the doers of the world.