Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. The next step in complexity is building a software product that you can offer as a service to your customers.

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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. Teaching in Chile. Valaparaiso houses. Entrepreneurship and innovation in what I call “Chilecon Valley” is being talked about continually here.

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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. Singapore is the home of many technology startups and offers a range of accelaration programs.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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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.”

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

They have flexibility on programming, access to space, and can supplement curicculum in a world where official curicculum change takes years. 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.

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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. The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. Interesting to see Y Combinator revise funding portion of its program … The YC VC Program – [link]. Facebook Remains Gaping Hole in Advertising Industry’s Privacy Program | Advertising Age – [link].

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

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. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team. Beware, however!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The Focus on Execution Versus Learning and Discovery The product development model assumes that customers needs are known, the product features are known, and your business model is known. Given this certainty, it’s logical that a startup will hire a sales and marketing team to simply execute your business plan.

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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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2020

Allow them to be part of the software development process. You will realize that everyone gives a different yet unique point of views if you allow your employees to be part of your business plan. Before designing a business plan for your organization, you should ask the below questions to yourself.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Developers. Programming Tutorials. Programming Tools. Businesses. Business Articles. General Business. Business Services. Custom Programming. Business Tools. Gather your market research, your business plan, and your prototype and make your presentation to potential CTOs.

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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. After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I was in high school, a classmate and I started a peer mentoring program for our middle school which has grown and flourished. Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I also discuss why I believe a philosophy degree (often in combination with another specialization) can be more impactful than the traditional business degree on an entrepreneur’s career. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I also discuss why I believe a philosophy degree (often in combination with another specialization) can be more impactful than the traditional business degree on an entrepreneur’s career. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

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. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

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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 says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The biggest risk in our business plan is that we are relying to some extent on time over money, because were self-funded. We know of no-one making a similar product to us, but there are businesses making other kinds of products that would naturally compete for the same money from the same customers, which makes us mutual threats.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Programming Your Culture | TechCrunch - [link]. “your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 35 Chicken Logo Design Perfect for Poultry Business – [link]. Don’t Think Big.

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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? for Harvard Business Revie.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. I intend to rewrite my internal 50-page business plan into an investors proposal. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Another sign of how little the initial idea is worth is the numberof startups that change their plan en route. Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Thats nonsense. Well, it doesnt.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m learning how to program. Has anyone found a referral program system that works great to generate new customers? How I can find the right investor (software)? No investor cares about a business plan. If you want to build an APP, but have no programming skills, where is the best place to start?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model. as long as there’s some sort of try-before-you-buy, i think you can safely leave a fully-supported free version off the business plan. If a program is free and popular the support can take a lot of your time from the sheer volume. . #23 m3mnoch on 08.18.10

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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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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.&# Get Some Assist With The Text To Speech Software Program « shiyan on 08.06.10 Or Proctor and Gamble. Or Panasonic.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

I know, I know, I just said hiding your business plan is silly , but although I’ve shared our “secret” plan with dozens of people in person, it’s a little different publishing it in front of 30,000 RSS subscribers… at least, not yet.) There are some drawbacks here to be sure.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

. #1 – Developing Software. One of our company’s primary goals for 2017 is to finish developing and begin using our proprietary software program. The software will make our job easier. I am a licensed Realtor with a business plan that will catapult my business.

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