Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

About us At Scopic Software, we have over 250 employees in over 30 countries all comfortably working from home/remotely. About you You are a skilled C++ 3D Graphics developer, a problem solver, a creative and analytical thinker who enjoys the security of regular projects and values the advantages of working remotely.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I asked my coworkers at Palo Alto Software for book recommendations for entrepreneurs to read this upcoming fall. Here at Palo Alto, we champion the value of investing in books for employees. My colleagues did not disappoint. These five books make up a fall reading list for every entrepreneur this year. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

7 Reasons You Can’t Be Friends With Your Employees – crowdspring.co/1jrrWok. The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. 7 Reasons You Can’t Be Friends With Your Employees – crowdspring.co/1jrrWok. 20 Compact and Sporty Sans Serif Fonts – crowdspring.co/1ijERL3.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

For example, with any outside investment, you give up some ownership and control, and with bootstrapping your growth curve will likely be longer and more organic. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. Of course, every approach has pros and cons. June 17th, 2012.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

If you’re bootstrapping, you don’t need to worry about either of these options. Also, if you can build a nice little group of advisors and partners you will have the added momentum from all those people as well as some potential future employees. This is not a good time to ask for outside funding. Option Three: Or don’t raise funding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Well, that’s fine as far as it goes but when you’re a startup and you don’t have customers yet you need a way to bootstrap and that can feel awfully chaotic and wasteful. In the case of C3, that was to run payroll for 87,000 employees, who were presumably receiving payroll before the project began. Thats pretty clear.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

As a result, candidates ranged from self-taught college dropouts or associate’s degree holders to PhD holders, ACM winners, MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Caltech students, and Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google interns and employees with a lot of people in between. Or I can create a new, actually useful JavaScript framework.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, theyre going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. I crawled my way back and have largely been able to bootstrap the business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

Does A Billion-Dollar Valuation Buy Employee Happiness? Good read for entrepreneurs & startup employees on liquidation preferences – crowdspring.co/1neVvzy. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. ReadWrite – crowdspring.co/1ekm5xR.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? Take the success of ITWatchDogs , the company I helped bootstrap and eventually sell (before Smart Bear).

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees on the Cheap – crowdspring.co/Y8l0IJ. Ten Things Bosses Never Tell Employees, But Should | by Jeff Haden – crowdspring.co/Yef2Gd. 10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees on the Cheap – crowdspring.co/Y8l0IJ. 40 Extensions And Plugins For Extending Bootstrap – crowdspring.co/1w2XjfG.

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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. Matt Watson: It is a hard skill to learn and I love our employees dearly, but managing employees is hard.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2011

Turning an Addiction into a Bootstrapped Startup – [link]. 33 Essential Resources for Developers & Designers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 33 Essential Resources for Developers & Designers – [link].

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Joel of Fog Creek says: “We didn’t start with a particular product in mind: our goal was simply to build the kind of software company where we would want to work, one in which programmers and software developers are the stars and everything else serves only to make them productive and happy.&#

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. GroupSwim – Social collaboration and community tools to bring your employees, customers, and partners together. Invoice Journal – Free invoicing program.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them. This left very smart employees feeling very frustrated because their managers would interfere intermittently and at random moments. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Insightful.

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