This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. That's when I had a conversation with Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, who at the time was running Aardvark. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. It needs to be a conversation. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? There's just too much variation. What is searchable?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. It needs to be a conversation. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? There's just too much variation. What is searchable?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Also trending are housewares that are bespoke, unexpected, and conversational. It pertains to advising individuals and even provides solutions to companies struggling to make a name for themselves. You could provide cloud storage and computing services, or offer website hosting, software development, and other IT services.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

So what about software developers? Developers starting out must choose between selling directly or using a third-party app store, who can do the discovery and back-end for them. Spotify may be a big name challenging the status quo with its antitrust case, but they’re not the only ones. Why go to an app store at all?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Maybe you identified your target audience and conversation through Twitter research, but discover a handful of forums or blogs that attract essential influencers. Blogger outreach services streamline connecting with the blogs driving the conversation you’re joining. Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2010

How could you not fall in love with a company named AgileZen ? Today, Rally Software – a company I’ve been an investor in since 2003 – announced that they have acquired AgileZen. If you are an Agile software development shop, or follow ALM, Rally just added Kanban to the mix.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The standalone apps support using multiple accounts, conversations with optional end-to-end encryption , and playing games. A chatbot (or bot) is a piece of automated software that engages in a conversation with people. Marketers want to reach more prospects, generate more leads, and improve conversions.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

No one wants their hard work to go down in the name of a shoddy investment. The IT industry is made up of a wide range of sectors, such as software development, hardware manufacturing, and telecommunications. Understanding what industry stands a chance to succeed in the future is helpful in making investment decisions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 15, 2012

Nick: The name of the company is PinfoB.com. Jason: Well, it’s certainly a very complicated company because the name is difficult to even spell. Lucky for you, domain names are not case-sensitive or you’d be sunk already, right? Nick: Right. Jason: PinfoB? That was great. Jason: All right. What is PinfoB?

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. But what happens when a constructive conversation becomes a futile one? To an extent, all of this is true.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Understand preferrably at software development understanding level.” Clicking “New Tag” will take you here… We’ll name it “GA Pageview – ConversionXL – All” It’s important to be specific when naming tags. Eventually, you might have hundreds of tags.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Being a software developer, he looked for the team in game development and he pitched the idea to Holger Sprengel and Jens Piesk who became the two other founders. We are very excited towards the development in the area of robotics and mixed reality hardware. He had the idea for Tunnelware since 2014.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2017

I can’t tell you how many times I run into first-time founders who’ve been fed absolute nonsense from ‘advisors’ ‘mentors’ or similarly named people about their ‘secrets’ for managing legal spend. Last time I checked a solid software developer will cost you six figures in salary; ignoring equity.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Why You Should Re-architect Your Career to Amplify Your Strengths Joel on Software is Shutting Down. I’ve picked up 6 keyword-heavy domain names from this site in the past two months.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Lots of great insight in this Hacker News Conversation about MVPs and getting started - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Logo Design: Personal Names | Abduzeedo – [link]. Valve’s employee handbook is a fascinating read.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. According to the last stats provided by oDesk itself, the company has 4.5 million jobs.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Get Feedback Early and Often The Beatles began playing out under various names within a few months of forming in 1957, when John and Paul were 16 and 15, respectively. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. This didn’t happen by accident. 8 comments ↓ #1 Lewis on 08.25.10

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Software By Rob

JULY 16, 2009

This book is for software developers who want to start successful web businesses and includes interviews with Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Guy Kawasaki, and David Allen. Several chapters rang true with my experience, namely the ones with great titles like: I have a fancy title, steady paycheck, & good benefits. at 1:09 pm [.]

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

By now we’ve discussed the fact that you should first plug your funnel , then improve conversion rates , then work on sending as much traffic as possible to your website. But we haven’t talked about how big of a role traffic quality plays in determining your conversion rate. This is because the quality is so much better.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 4, 2010

Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 2:44 am You mentioned a wordpress theme in the TechZing podcast and I can’t remember it’s name.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. In summary – I have been involved with software development for 25 years.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cordially, [Managers name] [His phone number] How likely am I to call him when I need my next service? Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. He also provides something of a process for maintaining your network. 3 comments ↓ #1 Martin on 07.20.10

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

You do this by solving a real problem, being remarkable , driving relevant traffic (free and paid), boosting conversions , using referral programs and so on. Ever registered a domain name through GoDaddy? This is what most businesses do and try to get better at. Image credit. It’s the most expensive part of increasing sales.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago a Micropreneur Academy member asked about getting started as a freelance developer since freelance development can be more conducive to getting started as a Micropreneur. In the end you have to invest time to build your name. September 29th, 2009 | Software Development Building your startup?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

It’s written by an internet marketing consultant, but the message applies to web design, web development, and software development just the same. We’ll back up your claim as a ‘Researched Fact’ &# Has A Customer Ever Tattooed Your Company Name on Their Arm? Check out my book Like this post?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice. Conversion Optimization Services. Conversion Research. It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Website Analysis.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 15, 2010

Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Have you read/seen Tim Ferriss talk about how he chose the name for the Four Hour Work Week? at 5:53 am ?

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 6, 2009

This episode’s Micropreneur is Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson who recently launched his online mind mapping software ThoughtMuse. == Rob: Hi Thomas. Thomas: My name is Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson. I’m a 31 year old Norwegian software developer. By day I work in a small startup specializing in mobile software.

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