Business Plan, Developer, Entrepreneur and Software Developers

How to Protect IP When Outsourcing Software Development

Up and Running

MARCH 12, 2019

Our commercial marketplace is ripe for innovation, and if you’re building a business right now, you’re probably thinking about how to streamline or disrupt an industry that’s been stagnant—just doing business as usual—for decades. So how can you protect your intellectual property when you outsource software development work?

IP

IP Software Developers Software Development Intellectual Property

Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 In an era of “launch and learn&# is there a need for a business plan? I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. That died with waterfall software development. Do so at your peril.

Business Plan

Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review

Create a Business Plan for Fewer Hassles and Faster Growth

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

Writing a business plan can help make sure Office Space doesn’t feel relatable [ source ]. If you’re coming up with a business plan for a new venture, there’s a good chance you can relate to this scene. Perhaps it represents what drove you to become an entrepreneur in the first place.

Business Plan

Business Plan Angel Investor Partner Naming

Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Here is Startup Funding, a Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs. To secure your funding, you must establish the feasibility of your idea through proper planning and implementation. You can get a personal loan without a business plan.

Startup

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage

15 Inspirational TV Shows For New Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2018

shows recommended by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. These shows will give you a behind the scenes look at how the world of business works, what it takes to become successful in business and teach you strategies that you can implement to build and grow your own business. Shark Tank. TVF Pitchers.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York City Incubator

4 Things I’ve Learned As An Entrepreneur Right Out Of College

Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

The outdoor industry wasn’t helping itself, so he did what all entrepreneurs do: start a business to solve the problem. It’s difficult to be an entrepreneur — whether you’re a recent college graduate or have managed multiple companies. It’s why the average age of an entrepreneur is 42 years old. Solve the rest later.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Lean Colorado Engineer

Great Ideas Will Die on the Altar of Apple’s Fee

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Up until the trial between Fortnite publisher Epic and Apple , most people probably weren’t aware of just how astronomically high a fee Apple charges developers for offering in-app purchases through the App Store. This is, at least on paper, a big win for developers. Software development is really expensive.

Business Model

Business Model Developer Software Developers Software Development

The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley

‘Do-It-Yourself’ Startups Have Never Been Easier

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Startup

Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping

Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2023

Rating for an app: 10/10 Rating for software: 10/10 Rating for technology other than app or software: 8/10 #2: KillerStartups KillerStartups aims to help them both by reviewing up-and-coming internet startups right on the spot, right at their birth. Why it’s great: Springwise is a great website to promote your app or software.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review Startup Artificial Inteligence

8 Reality Checks That Every Startup Founder Dreads

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%. The product is behind schedule.

Founder

Founder Startup Software Developers Software Development

5 Easy Steps to Your Own E-Commerce Startup for $100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Hosting

Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network

Kick-Start Your eCommerce Business for $100 or Less

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. The cost of entry has never been lower.

eCommerce

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net

If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". Does Apple win the hearts (yes, hearts ) of millions because of their obsession with design or because of their development APIs? Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Viral Software Developers

Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Develop your business plan. Product development process.

Startup

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping

8 Clues that Your Business Honeymoon May be Over

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%. The product is behind schedule.

Software Developers

Software Developers Software Development Business Model Product Development

E-Commerce Startup Entry Cost is at All-Time Low

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. The cost of entry has never been lower.

Cost

Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping

Eight Key Problems Every Startup Should Anticipate

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%. The product is behind schedule.

Startup

Startup Software Developers Software Development Business Model

Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

Lean

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development

10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Follow along as we explore 10 of the most exciting college business incubators around today, and be sure to share your own favorites in the comments: Entrepreneurs Hall @ The RIT Global Village. At Rochester Institute of Technology’s Entrepreneurs Hall, innovation is a way of life. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Innovation Depot.

Incubator

Incubator New York City Boston Intellectual Property

4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. NextView Ventures: Did you start to seriously work on the idea during business school or after? On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Tom Eisenmann.

Founder

Founder Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder

[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Espousing that borrowing money and debt are optional, the book proposed that entrepreneurs starting such businesses were more interested in the lifestyle it offered rather than making oodles of cash. For example, Restaurant: From “Food and drinks” to “Relax and let us take care of you after a busy day”. 3 One-page business plan.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review South Carolina Startup

Eight Clues That the Honeymoon is Over

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2010

Starting a business is a lot like starting a marriage. Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%. The product is behind schedule.

Software Developers

Software Developers Software Development Business Model Design

Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software.

Startup

Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software

Twitter Link Roundup #208 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

Four Important Small Business Insights: Marketing in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1d0lOBF. What can replace Facebook for small business? | Small Business and Startups: Thinking About Business Plans (again) – crowdspring.co/1cdV3pS. The Importance of Transactional Emails for Small Business – crowdspring.co/L1YQ46.

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Thoughts on being a startup in Chicago: 3 tips for entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

This is a question that all entrepreneurs should ask themselves as they are moving their idea towards a reality. Our hurdle was to develop our own network of investors and we did this the old-fashioned way: one degree of separation at a time. Why go elsewhere? Finally, recruiting talented workers has been an ongoing concern.

Chicago

Chicago Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Entrepreneur

Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

Belarus

Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor

5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. In hindsight, it’s understandable that friends and family were skeptical when we told them about our business. Suddenly, we were business owners. This developer had founded businesses before.

Startup

Startup SEO Montana Argentina

How to create a sustainable social media strategy for your startup

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

A steep discount may not fit with your business plan and current financial state, but make sure you find some way to compensate your initial believers. Even as you direct resources to forming and executing a social media strategy for your startup, you’re investing in your business plan at-large. Always remember.

Social Media

Social Media Media Viral Startup

Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

On top of that, most of a school's major donors are likely to be entrepreneurs in some way. Throw in the Zuckerberg at Harvard story--or rather Harvard "losing" Facebook and you wind up with a lot of schools wanting to figure out how the next big business can wind up on campus. Kick the students out. Connect with your alumni better.

Incubator

Incubator .Net Cofounder Software Developers

Twitter Link Roundup #157 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. 12 Must Watch TED Talks for Entrepreneurs – [link]. Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Just 25 Developers Grabbed 50% Of App Revenues On U.S. Recruiting Developers? How to Get Startup Ideas - [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #105 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Small business tips: mobile technology, the iPad, and your business - [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Simple Squares - [link]. New Business Plan Format is Concise and Personal - [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: Copper Penny Marketing - [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #126 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2012

Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – [link]. Fall In Love With Your Business, Not Your Business Plan – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Design is Marketing – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Take A Chance On Yourself

Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

This morning, the New York Times had a great article which compliments this titled An Entrepreneur Who Took A Chance on Herself. About this time a friend and past co-worker approached me asking if I would be willing to work and eventually lead with him on a software development venture.

New York

New York Software Developers Software Development Email

Top 9 Easy Career Hacks That Most People Don’t Do

David Teten

APRIL 17, 2015

One of the marks of a good financial modeler is building checksums throughout her model; the analogous principle holds for a good software developer. When I meet people, I often say, “Please email me [a business plan/a competitive analysis/a resume/etc.].” A shorter version of this posted in Entrepreneur.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review Software Developers Software Development

Twitter Link Roundup #37 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

50+ Ultimate Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers and Designers – [link]. How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web Development – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Business Plan vs Business Model – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers.

France

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage

Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. “ nobody wins if you go out of business&# – On Pricing – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. iPhone/iPad have 51% developer mkt share.

Social Media

Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design

Want To Scale Effectively? Start Thinking Like A Ten Person Team When You’re Still A Solopreneur

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

by Mario Peshev, author of “ 126 Steps to Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur: The Entrepreneurship Fad and the Dark Side of Going Solo “ Running a business alone is challenging, but this is usually not the end goal for beginner entrepreneurs. How is a business plan usually structured?

Vertical

Vertical Distribution Business Plan Software Developers

Twitter Link Roundup #62 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: DressRush.com – [link]. Most businesses… don’t need more cash, they need more brains.” – @mcuban , [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs – Part II: research – [link]. Building Great Software: Less is More – [link]. Need a logo?

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE

Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Unfortunately, to many would-be entrepreneurs, getting past the dreaming phase and into the doing phase seems insurmountable — especially in a shaky economy where quitting your day job seems foolhardy and funding seems scarcer than, well, pay raises and affordable health insurance. Many a great entrepreneur has been derailed by burnout.

Cofounder

Cofounder Vermont Ohio Brazil

Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. 25 Impressive Examples Of Business Card Designs – [link]. 20 Useful Tools For Designer and Developers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design

Twitter Link Roundup #178 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

The Start-up Hall of Shame (America’s 10 Worst States for Entrepreneurs) – [link]. Startups: You Should Value Software More | by Wade Foster – [link]. The Business Plan. eBay, The FBI, Shawn Hogan And Brian Dunning | Business Insider – [link]. Is working in a startup as great as it sounds?

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

How to Protect IP When Outsourcing Software Development

Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Trending Sources

Create a Business Plan for Fewer Hassles and Faster Growth

Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

‘Do-It-Yourself’ Startups Have Never Been Easier

Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

8 Reality Checks That Every Startup Founder Dreads

5 Easy Steps to Your Own E-Commerce Startup for $100

Kick-Start Your eCommerce Business for $100 or Less

If you build it, they won't come, unless.

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E-Commerce Startup Entry Cost is at All-Time Low

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[Review] The $100 Startup

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Twitter Link Roundup #208 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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