Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. Customer retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. Customer retention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

Working with an attorney is an added cost that many entrepreneurs are hesitant to spend, especially before their venture is turning a profit. While DIY websites may offer searches that claim to cover the same ground, they are typically at an additional cost and not nearly as comprehensive as those conducted by a trademark attorney.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Software as a service platforms make it easier and more cost-effective than ever to run a business, thanks to powerful applications for accounting, customer relationship management, and other important functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are some basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. Customer retention.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

So your cost per billable hour is: Nominal Cost: $30/hour. Recomputing the cost of the remaining billable hours, we have: 20 WD/month, $31/hour. That changes the annual cost of your employee from $60,000 to $69,000 with an associated change in hourly cost: 20 WD/month, $36/hour.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. Most of us have worked in corporate environments where you're never allowed to go back and refactor code.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

Step 1: Create pre-launch documentation that refines your messaging and builds employee buy-in. Pre-launch documentation helps ensure everyone is on the same page before you begin shipping your product. Documenting the buyer’s journey with their goals and pain points allows for more compelling messaging.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. When a developer wants to check-in code, this is a very scary moment.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

More than a year was needed to have all process and project documentation optimized and organized so they were simple and intuitive for the team to follow. Selecting a good project management software is the first step followed by endless reviews and continuous improvement as the organization grows. It was not enough, though.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

We have lower costs and risks due to using blockchain to manage critical functions such as issuing and managing cryptocurrency, grants, intellectual properties and STEM career listings. Our team is experienced with over 150 years of research and software product development experience that includes five startups and an exit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Every change required a server restart.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. For modifications, please edit the original document here. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Seed Startups.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Are the logistics manageable?

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. Putting out there as to what our financial results will be , and why - in the form of well-documented and reasoned financial forecasts. I will review and reach out with some thoughts to help you. Putting all of this out there and SO many good things come back to us.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. The point tracking and documentation system would be managed manually by my team on the back end. They looked for reviews, social interactions, and recommendations. They wanted to make sure they’re going to pay for a proven solution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

While some cost-cutting measures reduce that number, others increase it. In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. Otherwise, cutting costs just leads to going out of business a little slower. What counts as an iteration? Work in small batches.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people. Advocates for diversity and inclusion (D&I) want to see a greater commitment to inclusion in product development and diversity in global employment and hiring practices. Capital Factory hosts D&I related meetups, pitch contests, and hack-a-thons.

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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. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

A 354 percent increase in abuse-related issues like spamming, followed by a 245 percent increase in legal costs dealing people trying to game the system.&# About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. at 10:09 am I think support and other ancillary costs are key here.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? To find out what people are complaining about, read forums, turn to your social media accounts, and read reviews. Of course, you could also calculate your price based on the cost of materials and manufacture. What do your friends want?

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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. It was really the community who built that product.&#

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Henry , Chris Callahan , Travis Briggs , Nene Kalu , Nikolay Pohodnya , Jamin Wong , Nick Gauthier , Anon User, Andrea Narciso , Steve Shapero , Max Yankov , Christopher Wiley , Bruce Serven and Tony Karrer This question gets asked a lot on Quora, but this one strikes me due to the phrasing. Wild guess: nope, you never heard of him / her.

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