Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Companies that provide translation services often call themselves localization agencies and companies which offer marketing localization services present themselves as translation agencies. You need to think through and address these business planning concerns before beginning with team formation and content development.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Accounting?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I gave a presentation at a legal technology conference last week. When I got back to the office, I reviewed some of the other accounts that we were currently working with, and I noticed some patterns emerge. There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming. It is a symbiotic relationship.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Buyers became more critical due to a reduction in reosurces and as a result the entire process started to involve more people ultimately taking longer to close. MQL cost significantly increased. With Opsfleet, the situation was critical as they provide a commodity service (software development) and have signifcant competition.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2020

Now due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic — on-demand appshave seen an unprecedented surge (spaceo.ca). All customers have to do is make a click, and the business will be there to serve them at their doorsteps in the most time and cost-effective fashion. On-demand businesses on the rise. billion on On-demand services.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed. That died with waterfall software development. How will you go to market in a cost effective way to achieve similar margins as your competitors. Ditto for enterprise software companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

The trends shifting in the eLearning sector due to the influence of COVID 19 on schools and colleges across the United States and the world are shifting to a hybridized-online and in-person format. 16- Rise of citizen developers. One of the benefits of the citizen developer movement is that it solves the developer shortage problem.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s one of many ecommerce software platforms on the market but only the fifth most popular by market share. It’s the reason that 69% of people buy from a brand they know over one that gets better reviews. Brand equity helps build the relationships between the perceived benefits and perceived costs that people relate to that product.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 15, 2021

At each stage, your story should present relatable struggles, goals, or situations, and how your business helps people overcome pain points, achieve success, and emulate an experience. Customer stories work well here, as social proof builds trust and credibility—93% of consumers state online reviews impact purchase decisions. .

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The speaking line-up is a who’s who of software bloggers and authors, including Geoffrey Moore, Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah and Joel Spolsky. There were several great presentations during the conference.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

A chatbot (or bot) is a piece of automated software that engages in a conversation with people. You Get Their Facebook ID: These tend to last forever, where as business emails expire on average 4% / month due to people changing jobs, etc. Facebook Messenger messages can reduce your marketing costs.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Innoviz Technologies (2016)- High Definition Solid State LiDAR (HD-SSL), enables smart and advanced 3D remote sensing for fully autonomous vehicles, while significantly reducing both cost and size. The company’s tech predicts the right app and location to present an ad based on user and cohort behaviour.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. Hes just as comfortable writing code as racking servers, debugging windows drivers, or devising new interview questions. He throws off volumes of code, and it works.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our code pushes take another six minutes. Since these two steps are pipelined that means at peak we’re pushing a new revision of the code to the website every nine minutes. On average we deploy new code fifty times a day. Code reviews and pairing Great practices. That’s 6 deploys an hour.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. President of The Tech Museum.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. You make your case with objective data: CTR, customer acquisition cost, etc. Another success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand | Michael Schrage-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Invest in Your Customers More Than Your Brand | Michael Schrage-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Why Organizations Are So Afraid to Simplify – Ron Ashkenas-Harvard Business Review [link]. – [link].

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The theme was "the future of software". He is a great speaker and I enjoyed the speech, but after 40mn, I was still waiting to hear about the future of software.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). So it can be done.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2010

Useful presentation slides from @dcancel on data driven startups – [link]. How Microsoft Xbox Uses Twitter to Reduce Support Costs – [link]. Best Practices for Preventing Design and Code Theft – [link]. Weigh the legal & business risks – [link]. How Often Do You Ask Why? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2010

Useful presentation slides from @dcancel on data driven startups – [link]. How Microsoft Xbox Uses Twitter to Reduce Support Costs – [link]. Best Practices for Preventing Design and Code Theft – [link]. Weigh the legal & business risks – [link]. How Often Do You Ask Why? – [link].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

And when you consider that acquiring each customer has a cost, you can appreciate the importance of an airtight sales funnel that consistently converts. There are a ton KPIs you can track, but below are the most important for reviewing the health of your SaaS. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). Is it starved of leads?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). Business development consultant. Polling code must be open sourced , can’t have propriety code. President of The Tech Museum.

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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 -. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a visual presentation of whether your heart is working correctly. To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). They used someone else’s wearable heart monitor to detect the Afib.).

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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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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 30, 2020

the present set of risks. When the crisis did come, LinkedIn’s CEO at the time, Dan Nye, attended the famous “RIP Good Times” presentation by Sequoia and came back convinced that the company needed to do a layoff. There is a hidden cost to inconsistency. We discussed this in detail on the latest episode of Greymatter.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Thanks to Stanley Kovak, Mirror Care !

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