ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

The image above is taken in Takotna, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. More phenomenal photos from 2011 are in the Other section below. Good suggestions on handling customer service questions and issues – [link]. Mark Cuban on Why You Should Never Listen to Your Customers – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Small Business and Startups: For Great Customer Service, Speed Counts – [link]. Small Business and Startups: For Great Customer Service, Speed Counts – [link]. 50 Fresh and Beautiful Free Fonts from 2011 – [link]. 50 Fresh and Beautiful Free Fonts from 2011 – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2011

The 2011 Trends Driving Rural Small Business, my annual look ahead: [link]. Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness) – [link]. 35+ Free Mobile & Web Application Development Icon Sets – [link]. 4 Predictions for Web Design in 2011 – [link]. Need a Logo? Gimmick or smart idea?

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2011

The 7 Restaurant Industry Trends of 2011 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The 7 Restaurant Industry Trends of 2011 – [link]. Bookstore customers can be pretty odd – [link]. Agriculture – [link].

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

The first path is set up a pay wall and run the customers through a sales process. Freemium was popularized as a term about 5 years ago but has been used by software developers for much longer. The paid software business models available to you are simply a bag of tools. Here’s the data: 2007: 10%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Custom job applications that landed jobs at 37signals – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2011- The Winners – [link]. – [link]. email obsolete?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

Not Everyone Is The Right Customer – [link]. The long term value of customers for small businesses & startups – [link]. The long term value of customers for small businesses & startups – [link]. Not Everyone Is The Right Customer – [link]. How to Hire a Graphic Designer – [link].

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. How To Find Your First Customers And Grow Your Business – [link]. Are you a student & love hacking software? Good advice but wrong perspective – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

5 Design Trends That Small Businesses Can Use in 2011 – [link]. Building Great Software: Less is More – [link]. Building Great Software: Less is More – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Need a logo?

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Software By Rob

JUNE 23, 2010

In progress meant you could have a partial or complete product, but it needs polish and customers. See you in 2011. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. The Categories There were two categories: zero-code and in progress.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

A Tale of Two Thank You’s from a Customer Experience Perspective – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011 – [link]. Reeses Pieces, E.T. and Product Placement in Movies – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 11, 2011

How Social Technology Is Remaking Business, Branding And Customers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. This is amazing: Shinji Saito 1st Place 2A World YoYo Contest 2011 … [link]. Defining Success – [link].

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, I label this as a business or technical risk because if left unaddressed, it could open the door to new competitors or leave customers with unaddressable needs. agile software development. (46). customer service. (3).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

5 Trends that Will Shape Small Business in 2011 - [link]. Finding the best startup customers - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 40 Small Businesses and the Online Tools They Can’t Live Without - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Good data & analysis: How to Make Customer Service Matter Again Part 1 – [link]. Build a trusted relationship with customers before trying to sell – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Startup (and Small Business) Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Startup Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Internet Ad Revenues Rise to Historic $17 Billion in First Half 2012, Up 14% Over Half-Year 2011, According to IAB – [link]. Then Act - [link]. Then Act | crowdSPRING Blog - [link].

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. I wanted to narrow our focus to just social media, but in 2011 many people told me I was foolish, that it was still a passing fad. while, by the way, my company’s did not). Thanks to Abby Fichtner, Hacker Chick ! #8-

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The theme was "the future of software". He is a great speaker and I enjoyed the speech, but after 40mn, I was still waiting to hear about the future of software. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 16, 2006.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. Fast forward to 2011 and the business had been bought by Microsoft for a whopping US$8.5 billion [1]. 3] Varian, H.,

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2020

I was CEO of a little startup ( Localmind ) which we started in 2011, and things were going great. HW: Does this also mean you’ll have a budget to get some custom illustrations from your wife? Growth was up, we were regularly getting featured in the App Store, and we were just about to kick off our seed round. It’s a life experiment!

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. The product or website (be it software, e-commerce, or a service) might be awesome , but if it puts itself in front of the wrong market, or packages itself so the right market can’t figure out why it’s awesome, the startup will fail.

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The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2013

What this really means for Web and app developers is that they can focus on creating engaging, easy to use presentation layers for the end-user, but they don’t need to worry about how to integrate content into their apps or things like synchronizing it. Before founding Contentful I developed many apps for clients.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Custom Programming. Benjamin Kuker May 17, 2011 Tweet I have a feeling I might step on a few toes with this article, but finding a technical cofounder for an online business idea is a topic that I’ve seen come up often across a number of business community websites. Copyright 2011 Virtuosi Media Inc. Startup Advice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I grew up working in flea markets, and my family was entrepreneurial, not in the tech side of things or anything, but in different ways, and was always working side projects and jobs for people as a developer. Software developers don’t have telephones. I was that hired gun in some senses.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

David Skok, who is a must read for all startups , explains that as a SaaS company grows, the size of the subscribers/customers/users who no longer do business with the company will also, organically, grow. How Groove Reduced Churn by 71% By Defining “Why” Customers Quit. While users who remained customers logged in 4.4

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2012

Repeat after me: business is always about the customer – [link]. Repeat after me: business is always about the customer – [link]. Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs it sold in 28 years – [link]. Why You Need Marketing Analytics, Not Web Analytics – [link]. Name dropping!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Good suggestions from @stoweboyd on handling customer service questions and issues – [link]. Good suggestions from @stoweboyd on handling customer service questions and issues – [link]. Wow – $99,344,382 pledged on Kickstarter in 2011. Five kinds of work to farm out to the crowd – [link].

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

YouAppi (2011)- YouAppi creates adtech to streamline mobile user acquisition. Provides real-time access to data insights based on the collaborative knowledge of system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers throughout the world. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Talking to Customers Must be Part of Your Startup Culture – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Prediction for 2011: IBM computer will be the new Jeopardy champion! – [link].

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