Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. Centralized computing was giving way to smart, distributed devices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Software testing requires smart people to develop smart solutions. CEO of software crowd testing company, testIO, Phil Soffer is one such person. It’s one of those things that’s almost impossible to explain to anyone who’s not involved in software, but our target market is people involved in software, so it’s fine.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. it could also cost your business real money at a crucial early moment in its life. We did that for a lot of reasons.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Design, print and distribute. It’s now the name given to eye-catching and simple advertisements that can be distributed across social media, and not just in your city. Software like Adobe Spark’s flyer maker can assist in creating both digital and physical flyers. Flyers were once a traditional-only affair.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2018

CEO of software crowd testing company, testIO, Phil Soffer. It’s one of those things that’s almost impossible to explain to anyone who’s not involved in software, but our target market is people involved in software, so it’s fine. The software business is very funny, because most of what you do doesn’t last.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

#8- Property management Photo Credit: Jaden Oh Property management is a good way to make money, especially if you already know how to run a business or are good at making software for property management. With the right property management software and some experience in the real estate market, you might find success as a property manager.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Today it takes us now mere hours and costs less than $1,000. And solar energy reached parity in its price/performance ratio to conventional sources of energy like coal – turning a scarce natural resource into something which will be abundantly available at little to no cost in the near-term future. Today, with about 7.2

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback. Waterfall Development was all about execution of the requirements document. Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. You could then distribute flyers asking potential customers to contact you about the service, and find out how many are interested.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Keep this in the back of your mind as you think about the biggest transformation in enterprise tech; the re-platforming of corporate America from legacy to cloud/hybrid cloud and monolithic software apps to microservices driven development. Some call this “ambient AI” and I just call it software.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Work from home and remote work also significantly cut office costs. Instead of paying ridiculously high rent in San Francisco or London, startups and small businesses can spend on product development and marketing, thus tremendously increasing the chances of successful market entry and expansion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. They’re also focusing on developing relationships with and getting buy-in from key partners like the Red Cross and other NGOs. Looking ahead.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Activities might include hardware or software development, mastering a 10,000 mile supply chain, low-cost manufacturing, or to provide services in a foreign country. They’re also focusing on developing relationships with and getting buy-in from key partners like the Red Cross and other NGOs. Looking ahead.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. OtterLogic OtterLogic is a marketplace for less than truckload freight shipments that increases profits for carriers while lowering costs for shippers.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

When business development slows down. The big sign for us was when we had a hard time continuing to focus on our business and strategic development. Software development, customer service, operations, and order fulfillment were pulling leadership away from identifying new opportunities and building relationships to make them a reality.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days. People in the Philippines or India or eastern europe are very low cost – $7-10/hour. I had a company in europe in the past and was very happy with the quality software we created. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

The Facebook distribution dilemma – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Invisible bicycle helmet isn’t invisible, costs $600, and might not work – [link]. 7 Habits of Remarkably Charismatic Marketers – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Consider investing in these four software categories to improve business performance and bring in more revenue. Marketing automation software. There are a variety of powerful, low-cost, SaaS-based marketing automation tools available that enable SMBs to deliver buyer journeys and experiences like the big players.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

It costs twice as much to generate the same results from the same marketing tactics. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. So it gives you content, multiple distribution channels, and you start building this audience. Marketing is taking a bloodbath in 2023.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

The potential to democratise content creation, decrease cost structures and increase productivity are enormous and exciting – and scary at the same time. Furthermore, generative AI can generate entire paragraphs of text that sound like they were written by a human, as well as generate code for software development.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. Keeping inventory costs money. Inventory may have other costs too, like spoilage. Because there are costs associated with running out of things, too. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. by Joel Spolsky.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) BPM vendor (every software vendor!) should read Steve Blank’s Manifesto for Customer Development. Steve Blank and Eric Ries writings should be mandatory for software developers in the BPM [.]

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Books don’t cost very much money. And at some point, people figured out that, “Hey, I can take written content that I publish in the real world, and put it online, and it eliminates all my cost and fulfillment. It eliminates my cost of distribution. John Jantsch: Then that was a cost. All really good.”

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

Get customers to accept invoices electronically to avoid postal costs and delays. There are numerous cost and delays when sending out a physical invoice. Then, there is a cost to deliver the mail to the post office or arrange for and ensure the postal employee picks up the mail from your office.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Another great article is from Joel on Software called Duct Tape Programmer. Each incremental menu item is not a big deal, and provides a lot of value downstream, but a slight incremental cost. they even have a name for it , after having done some real-world experiments + it's context in software. Listen to your customers.

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