Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

I’ve been very blessed to have had a 22-year career at Intuit where I held various product roles from software developer on QuickBooks for DOS to offering leader on QuickBooks Connected Services. Jeff and I have shared all of these lessons in our new book The Intrapreneur’s Journey.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

And make sure to pick up a copy of his book. 22:53 Eric’s book: The Lean Startup. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! There are many in this episode. 21:20 Starting points for business should be a problem.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Demand for divorce services will lead to more professionals getting into the divorce industry. The housing demand has far outpaced the supply in 2020 and this will continue into 2021. No longer will they be able to print out-of-touch books that appeal only to those very familiar with literary conventions.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Global Demand. Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Lots of busy professionals (especially in large cities) will pay for such a time-giving service, but they’re likely to entrust their house keys and sensitive shopping demands only to someone they already know or have reason to trust. A graphic designer with efficient skills and just a bit of insightful vision will always be in high demand.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 15, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Terror of Firsts Podcast Ranked #13 in iTunes: Management and Marketing → I Need Your Help! Which Book Would You Be Most Likely to Buy? I’m in the first stage of writing a book.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2020

However, owing to the rise of on-demand businesses – stepping out of our homes for our daily needs seems to be an idea of another era. On-demand business, what is that? The on-demand business model is also known as an access economy or a shared economy. On-demand businesses on the rise. billion on them.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand. There are many analogies here for software development. But he was street smart and hustled. It made me confident about what would work.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

Being in software development for many years, I have worked on a wide range of projects. I have read 30 books by December 2020. My second book is completed by December 2020. Let’s take my goal of reading 30 books in 2020, for instance. I have a habit of reading books on a regular basis. Arrington, Sr.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

Other months, when business is slow, managers are left trying to keep their employees occupied and struggle to make the books balance. Having a solid and talented team in place allows a business to grow, to develop core skills, to provide consistently high-quality services to its clients.

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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. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development."

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

My first business, a digital agency called MPSWORKS, came about purely based on demand for digital services and to generally help make a difference for small businesses across the UK by creating strong work that would help them prosper. Thanks to Kendra Hill, Scale My Business ! #7- 7- Make a difference. Photo Credit: Mike Staines.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

The biggest successes have been galvanized around consumer-facing products like [the Pebble smartwatch] or the [Double Fine] Adventure game… something there’s tremendous demand for. Amanda Palmer is a musician who wanted to raise $100K for a new CD, tour and book. That’s what you’re competing with. She’s already raised $800K.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

As a result the young company is now saddled with an expensive, scaled-up sales organization frustrated trying to execute a losing sales strategy and a marketing organization desperately trying to create demand without a true understanding of customers’ needs. BPM vendor (every software vendor!)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. press and use it to generate end user demand and then drive that demand into our sales channel. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Are You Willing To Pay For The Change You’re Demanding? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Top 10 most read books in the world – [link]. When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – [link]. – [link].

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 6, 2010

Kindle, Here I Come So as of this morning, Start Small, Stay Small is now available in Kindle format from the Amazon website , and PDF & ePub format from the startup book website. If you’ve already purchased the book in PDF you should have received an email with a link to download the ePub version. 3 Rob on 08.06.10

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Empty Space: 40+ Stunning Minimalistic Book Covers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. UberCab: Roll In Style With On Demand Car Service – [link]. Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Typography (52 pages, PDF) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2010

Empty Space: 40+ Stunning Minimalistic Book Covers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. UberCab: Roll In Style With On Demand Car Service – [link]. Meet Your Type: A Field Guide to Typography (52 pages, PDF) – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. The demands of the role often add up to a full schedule that can drive even the best product managers to lose sight of their market and their customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The next legal frontier: courts can demand access to your social content, even if marked private – [link]. 90 Beautiful Book Cover Design in Different Style – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Do agencies need labs?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

Any of these situations will demand a valuation to determine current and future projected value. . Also referred to as Book Value . million dollars, because your software development firm is expected to generate enough revenue over time to offset that. Three Methods of Valuation. This is called a multiple.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

This is known in psychology as the ten thousand hour rule, and Malcolm Gladwell ruined it for the rest of us by beating this idea to death in his book Outliers. Now Back to Software Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. Most people have no idea about their strengths and weaknesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Since leaving GrubHub, he founded Fixer.com, an on-demand handyperson service focused on social impact. 23:25] Where can people find the book and connect with you? He founded fixer.com and on demand, handy person service focused on social impact. And so yeah, that's, that, that's the story that's detailed in the book.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Using your area of knowledge, you can create a YouTube channel, write blogs or e-books. From doing things like transcription, video editing, translating books, etc. Software As A Service. SaaS can be the perfect home-based opportunity for you if you are into technology, software problem-solving or software development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. Now, the present.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

On November 14 (that’s this Thursday) at 1p PT, Eric Ries will speak with Kent Beck, a creator of Agile software development, about facilitating the work of engineers and product teams. I can''t tell you how to move from demanding validation to sharing, but I can tell you what I did. First, I learned to recognize the difference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

These traits of a software engineer are always in demand by a great number of companies. A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Business people have it tougher.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. The goal is to reach venture-scale (~10x return on investment.)

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Back in 2016, I read a book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, founder of Google Ventures. As advocated in the book, I felt the idea of using restraint would help me quickly execute on new ideas. The goal was simple: validate demand or move on. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Ben Pate 28 Nov 09 at 5:56 pm sorry, I dozed off somewhere in the middle… Hans 29 Nov 09 at 12:57 am Another product design debt example from Amazon: some orders (mp3s, video on demand, kindle purchases) don't show up on the “Your Orders&# page. He and I have had some interesting email threads on exactly that issue.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 22, 2016

It’s what sets apart the NBA superstars from random ball players, it’s what makes the difference between a software developer making top dollar and someone having to struggle to find an odd freelance gig for a few bucks. Read Dale Carnegie books to get the fundamentals of interpersonal relationships right.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Yelp launches Yelp Platform to enter world of on-demand delivery – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Summer Business Books: What to Read Now – [link]. Vooza on Financial Statements for startups – [link].

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