Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Not to mention $200,000 in staff time and hard costs. Generously, it might cost you $20,000. In other words, you could test ten book ideas for the cost of publishing one. 4) I’m not a coder; should I bother to apply? Glad you asked.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

While the Texas weather is preferable to New York City and the cost of living preferable to San Francisco, there are many more reasons that entrepreneurs are flocking to Texas. including Charles Butt , founder of H-E-B; Dean Drako , founder of Barracuda Networks and Eagle Eye Networks; and Tim Draper , of Draper Associates.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

Techcofounder If you’re starting a company, chances are you either are a coder or need a coder. Coders can create anonymous profiles and accept solicitations to work on projects or join a team. Entrepreneurs can browse coders by skill or location. This site will help you out either way.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

Both me and my co-founder, Abhishek, met in first year of collage (IIT-Bombay). 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 I haven’t looked back since.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2020

Bunch of new information for me including: “There’s a rule that any federal safety regulation that’s going to cost more than a hundred million dollars a year has to pass a cost-benefit test. Sandra Upson/Wired – The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder.

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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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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

By disproportionately incenting, bonusing and promoting 2 nd Gear activities, Corporate America is multiplying the problem… as well as resultant family and health issues and budget-breaking costs. The Success Crisis is costing far more! Still a teen, this self-taught coder co-founded Mozilla Firefox and sparked a global phenomenon.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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Up and Running

JANUARY 13, 2014

Aron Susman, co-founder of The Square Foot, offers advice on vetting vendors. They started looking for website coders and settled on a company they liked. These days, we Google everything. From dinner recipes to peculiar medical problems, a search engine holds the answers. “We had to start all over.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. The team of 8 web designers and coders have launched the public beta in May 2011. In order to give your website to a top-level domain, and have hosted e-mail, it will cost $7.95/mo

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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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. If the cost of each failure is dirt cheap, then you can afford to make a lot more failures in the course of learning.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. How much will this cost? Why bootstrap?

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Right now companies are cutting costs and letting go of their $125/hour development shop. A lot of contract work is out there looking for mid- to low-cost providers. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Keep your feelers out for contract work. at 11:31 am [.]

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joel.is

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Im the founder of Buffer. 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). Additionally, the transition phase between the two is probably one of the hardest things I’ve experienced as a startup founder.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

Look out if they have received funding: Seed funding – means they are just starting out = less people in the company = higher likelihood of working closely with the founder. Be a founder of something. Go to sites like crunchbase and sort out by category and location of the startup. Side note: startup not as stable.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? more) Sign up for free to read the full text.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. I’ll tell you how much the code’s going to cost.” Welcome to another episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast.

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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. From day one, the founders believe that their vision can change the world. Small Business Startups: Work to Feed the Family. Buyable Startup s: Born to Flip.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Rockstar v.

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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. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Non of this academic stuff. you can hire for those.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Ben is the Chief Executive Olarker (CEO) and co-founder of Olark Live Chat. In this episode, CEO and co-founder of Olark, Ben Congleton, talks about the building of Olark and how they’ve differentiated themself in such a competitive industry. He's the chief executive o Larker and co-founder of O LA Live Chat.

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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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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2013

TechStars Boston has tried in recent years to focus at least parts of its classes on companies that may not fit the typical notion of a tech startup, looking for companies, ideas and founders that have intimate knowledge of how disrupt an industry that others may ignore. “We We love stuff like that. We like things like that,” Rae said.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Mistake – Choosing the Wrong Partner or Co-Founder. When I started, I had two other co-founders, but I was the only one able to work full time in the business while the other two could only commit on weekends. Generally, it doesn’t cost you a fortune to start an online business compared to a shop. Let me guess.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The result: three less fields for the customer to fill + shipping dates and costs already updated at the page entry. On the path to reducing needless checkout friction, only 10% of the websites helped their customers by pre-filling the state and/or city fields based on the zip code provided. Hayneedle (step 2 ) was one of them. Large view.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! He’s a coder himself and believes that any problem can be solved. It also has synching services that usually cost money. It’s a hard job, and a big vision.

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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

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? They are many more examples.

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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. That is what company founders and staff do not get.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. The difference in caseloads between counties and states that have done it and those that have not is stark. Jeremy Howard : Sure. It's a bit of a weird background.

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