Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. Read the Geography of Software Development Outsourcing for guidance. Try answering these questions: How has download and search traffic been trending for this app category? Before diving into app development, do the research.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Your web developer must have a good knowledge of new technologies emerging in the market that can help them to build better websites. Their tool kit may include well-established, tried, and tested software mixed with unique new custom software developments. Carefully work through these questions when vetting developers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. activities necessary to implement the business model. Microsoft Windows 3.0).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve spent the last week in Santiago, a guest of Professor Cristóbal García at the Catholic University of Chile as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program. Any updates on this course in english will have the tag “Lean Launchpad course” to make it easier to search. Teaching in Chile. Valaparaiso houses.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that. This is the most important sentence in this post and worth deconstructing.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2012

Looking at a different example; in the context of software development (or simply Internet websites), product managers will often create detailed personas of typical customers which then help inform subsequent decisions made when developing the application. Create a marketing plan to target them effective ly.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. NextView Ventures: Did you start to seriously work on the idea during business school or after?

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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. I had some limited knowledge about search engine marketing, but knew nothing about marketing in a more general sense. After several meetings with the developer, I was ready to get moving on it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. The Business Plan. eBay, The FBI, Shawn Hogan And Brian Dunning | Business Insider – [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link]. Designing Search: Displaying Results | UX Magazine – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to Write a Great Business Plan – [link]. Search Engine Optimization Tips For Startups – [link]. How to Write a Great Business Plan – [link].

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Avoid delay by using a consulting CTO on a short-term basis while you are searching for a permanent technology partner. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Try Google.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

“your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” Is Agile Marketing the Future of Search in 2013? Search Engine Watch – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. ” | by @fraying – [link].

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money. Let’s hit the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and find out how many people are searching for our key marketing term. Did you take a peek at what kind of search you performed? 14,800, here we come!&#

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product. All of this is usually a bad idea.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies.

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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. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The plethora of mentorship opportunities for entrepreneurs is mind-boggling — programs like TechStars and Mass Challenge , not to mention myriad business-plan contests. Our companies desperately need more lab technicians, search engine marketers, online advertising salespeople, and software developers.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. But when it comes to the specific of a product release, business plan, or marketing launch, all that matters is: do we have a strong hypothesis that will enable us to learn?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Quora Home About Login Sign Up Add Question Before adding a question, search for it above. As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The thought that kept running through my mind as I read them was: “This information would be helpful if I needed to generate a huge business plan to impress a business-school professor.&# Hit Meetup.com for starters, and search Facebook for other tech entrepreneurs in your area. Or Proctor and Gamble. Or Panasonic.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. From "Think and Grow Rich".

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Gather your market research, your business plan, and your prototype and make your presentation to potential CTOs.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. NET and PHP, I can tell you the average.NET guy knows far more about good software design than the average PHP guy. In every population there are some that are both brilliant and malicious.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something. How I can find the right investor (software)?

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