crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

A strong website can help a small business to more effectively market its products or services – even if the small businesses’ customers are all local. Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

One of the topics that raised heated debate was whether I had conflated technical design with product design , because I made the admittedly counter-intuitive claim that sometimes good technical design actually leads to increased technical debt. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Keep in mind that people are generally impatient when browsing websites and slow load times do impact conversions (getting people to buy your products or services). Understand the difference between design and development. To build a website, you’ll need both design for the site and development of the site.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

And making sales early on when a product is not nearly what it will be one day is especially hard. My team and I have created Happster, the first product created to take employee happiness to new heights through positive psychology. If I did not have the background in sales, we would not have made it. 6 – Investment Banker.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In Part 1 of this blog series, I presented a rather dysfunctional conversation going on between software consultants and you, their client. I explained what consultants mean when they use the word “productivity,” why it gets convoluted, and how understanding this can lead you to making better choices for your company. Number of Users.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Although I know many brilliant software engineers who worked unexpected miracles with Web Services, implementation by the common corporate programmer was stodgy in every case I heard about. Fine work, and many lessons learned , but sadly irrelevant to most of us. Goodbye, WS-I. Follow me as @webmink on Twitter and Identi.Ca

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. And we took the classic commercial tech approach of building minimal viable products: Get something that will work good enough. Minimal Viable Products. We started with a cross-functional team.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. In the first, you get a very clear idea of what the product is, what the candidate’s contribution was in the context of the product, and why that contribution matters. The results. About Posts Press. -->.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” One of the times I screwed this up it left a legacy of 25 years of questionable design in microprocessor architecture. And it’s certainly not Customer Development. No, not really.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. They've collected and sorted thousands of possible compounds, and now have multiple drugs in development in a lab in the UK. Some of them derived from oil, some of them derived from other natural products.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The blockchain and Arcadeum architecture we’re developing enables the future of gaming, where players benefit from truly owning their digital items, privacy, provable fairness, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. We started developing SkyWeaver in January 2018.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage. You can have a great site design, but if your product photos look terrible, your prospective customers will think twice about buying your products.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

If you’re wondering whether you have what it takes to take on freelancing, here are some of the popular types of freelance work you can start with: Web Development and Designing. Mobile App Development. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Game Development. Audio and Video Production. Creative Design.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2016

After all, your customers ultimately will want to learn more about your company’s products and services, and a dedicated website will help them do so. Showscase your products and services. You’re selling a product or service. Make sure that you clearly showcase that product or service on your homepage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. I have found this quite rare in engineers.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

She will likely produce a better finished product than I can. Drip outsourcing has become invaluable to my productivity. This ties back into a topic I’ve spoken about previously: when it comes to your product should you build it, buy it or hire it out? How Much Can You Really Gain? These days I save 60-100 hours a month.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. One product at a time wasn’t going to change the trajectory of the DOD. Nand Mulchandani.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” The requirements are as follows.”

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