Up and Running

MAY 21, 2018

Paying up front for this help will not only save you time—which is better spent building and running your business—but will also help you cut costs in the long run. This isn’t the fault of the coder; it’s just real life. When everything is right the first time, and the work is done well, you’ll likely save money in the long run.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes? So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. Why does it work?

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

in hosting costs for an app with nearly a million registered users that serves several million requests a month. In another example, at GroupSpaces we use services from Recurly to power our subscription billing engine and Assistly to power our helpdesk, which helped us to get up and running within a day. The Talent Squeeze.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Failing to find a coder whose vision aligned with ours, we ended up coding ActivityDeck website ourselves. The cost was estimated to be 5,000 U.S.D The cost estimated in India was 150-180 U.S.D We realized the issue remains with both the quality and quantity of teachers. A mobile app is on its way.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I also tried to use keywords that appeared frequently in the search engines, which helps new customers find my business on the internet! High costs and frustration often go hand-in-hand with building outdoor kitchens from scratch, which can deter people from even looking into purchasing them. 14- Stands out in search engine results.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 13, 2014

From dinner recipes to peculiar medical problems, a search engine holds the answers. They wanted to create a search engine-like site that would allow small businesses to find retail, industrial and office space in specific areas. They started looking for website coders and settled on a company they liked.

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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. The best ones know enough about Internet marketing (and search engine optimization) that they’ll be visible if they are looking for new projects.

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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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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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joel.is

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Meetings cost them more. The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). Over the next month, I searched for a great engineer to take over Android development, and I was lucky to find Sunil.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2016

Every startup team needs a “product owner” role who is not an engineer or coder to collect from customers, prioritize and document required features. Then developers size the implementation alternatives, and startup executives draw a line based on vision, costs and funding. Define and enforce role and decision authorities.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

I started out as a consultant, where I would literally be under the hood tuning the engine and fixing the things for the clients. I’ll tell you how much the code’s going to cost.” I do a lot of coaching where I help our customers understand the pathway forward, and then they go on implementing and executing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Request for Quotation - Write and run an RFQ process to determine approach, costs, timescales and conditions under which each vendor would deliver, select a preferred vendor and a spare in case of any problems during contract negotiations. How much will this cost? But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion. To date, Israel is only country that has engineered a successful entrepreneurship cluster from the ground up. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I work in Marketing, I can take on a project in Sales or HR or Engineering. We all start as individual contributors, and we are good at technical competence – that narrow collection of skills you need to be a coder, a cook, an accountant. They tell a coder how to write advanced code. It is rejuvenating.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2004

I couldn’t agree with him more that while there are cost benefits there are also other factors to consider when moving development offsite. While the number of coders may go down in an IT department, there will be ample opportunity for developers to move up the value chain into design, architecture, and product management.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. June 2014 – Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown write Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today’s Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth , which defines growth strategies as growth engines. …Really?

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

But they are also former software engineers and hackers, an experience that undoubtedly taught them skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Making savvy business decisions is not only about engineering, but also sales and marketing, business development, recruiting, and all the other functions of business.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

As an engineer by heart, I have a deep passion for creating new things that people would find value. Since I’m not a coder by profession, building a website is out of the question. I help homeowners save money on the cost of selling, and I help flippers make a bigger profit on their sales. And so far, it’s working.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Most of all, these arguments stemmed from a simple misconception: that the code we had written was an asset, and that it would cost us to throw it away. But code written that doesnt help the company succeed is a sunk cost. This has been the most appropriate thing I could have ever read right now. March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

So all their engineering is now based in Israel At that time they discontinued all the good SMB solutions. I mean, you know, everybody's envisioning the like teams of engineers sitting around, but I'm getting the sense it was like you and another. Ben Congleton (03:41): Coder. It kind of makes sense, right?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 8, 2017

Equally shocking, their engineering teams were almost exclusively male. What I find most shocking is how expensive all of this was for the companies involved: how much does an hour of an engineer’s time cost? More women coders. Not having everything technical that I do second-guessed by other engineers on my team.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Well, a big FYI to all – iPhone and Android were not the first mobile phones, Facebook was not the first social network ( Six Degrees was), Google, not the first search engine (see Archie ),the list goes on. Generally, it doesn’t cost you a fortune to start an online business compared to a shop. There work you know.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. My prognosis?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This is where you find the superb Rails coder, AND the world-class information architect, AND the consummate sales guy, AND the persuasive biz dev gal, AND the brilliant CFO. Engineer Irwin Cantor (the coder)? The key to making one of them into a home-run success brings us to: 2) EXECUTION SKILLS. Architect Der Scutt (the IA)?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. It is right that Google and Facebook pride themselves on being engineering organizations (note - so did Microsoft).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. In the end, we managed to repair the damage, but only after losing a lot of time and at significant opportunity cost. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

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