Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

For businesses planning to expand overseas or hire internationally, it's important to be aware of average salaries to understand the expectations of prospective candidates. The tech sector here is thriving, with software development managers being one of the country's best-paid roles.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

For example, Restaurant: From “Food and drinks” to “Relax and let us take care of you after a busy day”. Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. 3 One-page business plan. Develop a one-page business plan. Nuts and Bolts.

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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.

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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? Tom Eisenmann.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Part of me wants to just say that entrepreneurship education needs to be moved out of the business school altogether, but I know that's probably too jarring for most schools to think about. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Startups should look to hire from agencies | Technori- [link]. Good thoughts on startups hiring senior people – Old People | ben’s blog - [link].

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Additionally, you’re not expected to excel at every single vertical of successfully managing the business. But it’s a lot harder to prepare a proper business plan unless you’re planning ahead of time and considering the additional resources, you will need help you with this endeavor. Or maybe with sales?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Whatever kind of business you’re running — whether it’s a retailer, software development firm, restaurant, accounting firm, or manufacturer — it’s imperative to listen to what your customers are really saying when they tell you what they want from your business. Let “Mother” do the hiring. I apologize.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. New-to-the-world: strategic marketing for startups and small business – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

So what’s wrong the product development model? 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.)

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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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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested. Ditch the business plan and when assumptions are proven wrong, pivot Customer Development: Build a product your customers want (vs.

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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. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

You need to think through and address these business planning concerns before beginning with team formation and content development. Localization is a technical process involving software developers as well as linguists. Software doesn’t tolerate disorder in process or in sequence.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

Your business plan needs to set the course for how you invest in your team. Depending on your startup’s needs, it can be a toss-up on whether to hire for attitude or skill. When he founded ClientLoyalty , Barnett leveraged the proven skill sets of his first two hires to attract more funding from investors.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. Network strength is one of the reasons that people who want to build great software businesses have, and will continue to move to Silicon Valley.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

For businesses that need to be started quickly, just go where people are already making money and throw your hat in the ring. What about hiring, taxes, llcs, operations, scaling? We then rebuilt it and added a ton of new features/opened a business within less than 30 days. Getting overwhelmed by the big picture.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. It would make a lot of sense for someone else to just come along and build our hardware and sell our software without paying for 15 people doing development and engineering, but nobody did that. The article and HN are concerned with software.

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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.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. Gather your market research, your business plan, and your prototype and make your presentation to potential CTOs. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. If it's not financially viable, abandon it.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Business people are bad at deciding what to do with technology, because they dont know what the options are, or whichkinds of problems are hard and which are easy. For business people its roulette. People What do I mean by good people?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

It’s Time to Join the Crowd | Fox Small Business Center – [link]. What Job Are Your Customers Hiring Your Products To Perform? Small Business and Startups: Dear Santa - [link]. Why You Should Want to Pay for Software, Instagram Edition | The Atlantic - [link]. Bonnstetter-Harvard Business Review - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

Why You Can’t Hire – [link]. A Surprising Business Plan. Small Businesses Spending More And More On Social Media – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. I intend to rewrite my internal 50-page business plan into an investors proposal.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. How I can find the right investor (software)? Maple Butter. Search for: Videos.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Maybe we should just skip that free plan and focus on making money instead. About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. Check out my book Like this post?

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Good thoughts on why startups are struggling to hire people – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs – Part III: refinement – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Focus on what you’re good at, and nothing else!

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Steve Smith • Nov 8, 2010 I've always thought that a funny thing to do would be to post an ad on Craigslist saying "I'm a rockstar developer who is looking for the next great idea. you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Designers: How to Search For, Hire, and Work With a Web-Developer – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

That’s often the argument for going after those mid-sized businesses — look how many there are! But the average employee count of the mid-sized is 119 and of the large is 3,100, so if your goal is to sell a copy of your software to everyone inside a company, you have to sell 30 mid-sized for every large.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. 1 – Developing Software. 13 – Do Less.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.

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