The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

These two developments combine to make startup investing much more exciting than it ever used to be and we have seen a massive increase in the number of individuals who want to be angel investors. However, finding and assessing investment opportunities is still a difficult and time consuming business.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

However, for early-stage startups with limited resources, a fractional CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) can be a cost-effective option. They should be capable of navigating the complexities of sales, including closing deals while guiding the team effectively.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But if you start with realistic expectations for how much it may cost to launch a successful eCommerce store, you’ll be far more likely to succeed. So, before starting an eCommerce business , follow these tips to better plan out your site and accurately budget your startup costs. Budgeting for the initial website build.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Team Who's involved?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Team Who's involved?

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Often, executing a flank attack involves developing new technology. Whether you’re considering launching a new business or looking to develop a new product in an established company, you may have a vision of a new technology will that expose a vulnerable flank in an entire industry or against key competitors.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Rising customer acquisition costs—especially on ad platforms—have also put weaker brands with lower conversion rates out of business. Since it is literally my job to understand the ecommerce tech landscape, I want to show you some lesser known or new—but still quite valuable—apps. Shopify apps for ecommerce merchants.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

The choices for how to spend your time or dollars fall into two buckets: Site improvements, such as new content, on-page optimizations, and fixing technical SEO errors. For example, a worthwhile program investment is training your editorial team on URL creation because preventing technical errors takes less time than fixing them.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

You may well have to trade-off your travel dreams versus your tech startup requirements. As awe-inspiring as living on a remote tropical island sounds, there may not even be electricity between certain times of day due to rotating power scheduling whereby a town only receives electricity for a few hours daily.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Even a one-second delay can cost an ecommerce site $25,000–$125,000 per year …or more! Work with your team to uninstall resource intensive plugins that aren’t often being used and remove unnecessary scripts. There are other concrete steps that can help you improve your server response without a one-on-one with your dev team.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do? The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans.

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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.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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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. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Have an account? Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. Some three decades ago, IBM was years away from being able to prototype speech-to-text technology because the hardware available those days was significantly underpowered for the task. Another success.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Thats why we need continuous integration and test-driven development. May your team, one day soon, refactor with pride.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

You really need to get with your development team and if you don’t know what the word responsive is, ask them and make them make your website that. Those things cost me $5,000, $10,000 a build five or 10 years ago. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews.

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SBA Technical Review Software Review Small Business 60

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. So, why does this happen?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Cost savings companies experience when they eliminate expensive office rents and the payroll costs associated with the salaries required for people to live in major metro areas.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

After watching the video I have to say that right now Kajabi is a front runner, it actually made me excited about using many of the features, and that’s a rare thing when it comes to technology. The basic packages come with some a reasonable amount of bandwidth, but if you start using much more, you will incur a cost.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Pop-up technology has become more subtle, with the lightbox pop-up becoming the new standard (and also able to bypass pop-up blockers). Read on and let me help you decide… My Money Comes From My Email List The majority of people who will read this blog post will come from my email newsletter because I sent a message about this review.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So when we strip out pass through, and then we measure the margin on that pass through, it's almost like we have two layers of cost of good sold, which is a concept that a lot of accountants kind of struggle with. Cost-based accounting on projects in your accounting tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. Sure, it seems efficient.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

For example, heres him discussing our collective blindness to queues: To understand the economic cost of queues, product developers must be able to answer two questions. Today, only 2 percent of product developers measure queues. Second, what is the cost of these queues? First, how big are our queues?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). It’s a subjective topic.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. This is a better view than the standard report, but this tab is mostly for your boss (with mildly interesting data around engagement ) and for your IT/Dev team as they decide which platforms to optimize the experience for or prioritize first.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

These techniques are not mutually exclusive (you can find both of these techniques used at most of the best tech product companies), but the general principle is to test the hypothesis the fastest and cheapest way possible. Reducing cost because building, deploying, and supporting is expensive in time and money.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Walking the show floor revealed a lot of SAP people in every area demo’ing and talking about SAP products and technologies, and as @pgreenbe noted there wasn’t a lot of chaos and noise. There was a nice retrospective of SAP’s 40 years, paralleled to that of the technology industry in general. over to fill the gap?).

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Database Technical Review Cloud Acquisition 39

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Have an account? Are you using HTML5 when building mobile apps? Let us know.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. ability based on one of many technologies.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA.

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