crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 8, 2012

Entrepreneurs, by definition, take an idea or a concept and strive to make that idea into a operating business. To do this, we spend a great deal of time laying the groundwork: researching, modeling, testing, and (finally) executing to turn all of that work into a revenue-generating enterprise. Academics experiment.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. What I like about the dynamics of 1M/1M today is that we're starting to see entrepreneurs make definitive progress.

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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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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. I definitely check people out using LinkedIn. However, it definitely has served as a hub. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

A while ago, we published an article called How “Tag Management” Can Improve Site Performance , which explained the definition of a tag… When people talk about “tags” they’re talking about the snippets of javascript provided by 3rd party services like Google Analytics, DoubleClick, AdRoll, Adobe SiteCatalyst, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Lloyed Lobo (03:13): Definitely. Marketing was like me, and we bootstrapped this business to 10 million in revenue through building this traction community where we're bringing our ICP, our audience together around their aspiration and their goals. It takes care of itself.

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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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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Using our definition above, this traffic is of very low quality. As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. at 6:32 am [.]

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Digital Products → Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. “Front-End Developer&# Resume – Awesome. Definitely needs to be a pyramid scheme though. #4

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

The Startup Success Podcast – After the demise of The Micro-ISV Show, Bob Walsh is back discussing issues affecting software startups. We help you team with others, track revenue and share it openly and fairly. Definitely worth a look. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2020

Analyze the other business aspects and identify which affect or disrupt your business development. Allow them to be part of the software development process. Will the web app be supported to add a new revenue stream? This will definitely spark a unique idea. Your Employee. 5 – Analyze Your Industry.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. All of these articles are worth reading.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. True for (A), definitely NOT for (B). Shocking, I know.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. At this point, everyone loses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. Definitely. Learning how to code myself was the investment. Like this show?

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The reasons are obvious – many international companies have their production plants in China, while others are dependent on the big Chinese market and any decline in the demand for their goods and services can hit their revenue targets. The same happened in Japan as Nissan closed its plants due to production slowdowns in China.

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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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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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Software By Rob

MAY 21, 2010

Niche research can make a world of difference in your confidence level as you start writing code. Point #2: Two Months Into Development Around the two month mark you will hit a dip. This is off the radar for most developers – most of us just want to write code and sell it to people. This means cutting features.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. Does your definition of a successful company involve getting VC funding, working for a few years, and then selling it off for gobs of money, never to return to work again? Myth #1: I need to get VC funding to make my company successful.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2016

Without a definitive plan and deep understanding of the fundamentals, your mobile app data will get complicated quickly. You can also allow ads in your app to generate additional revenue. Choosing a Revenue Model & Strategy. Choose a revenue model for your app… Paid App: This is a one-time fee to download the app.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. But who needs revenue?) This situation is so unbelievably advantageous to a startup it’s like strapping rockets to your running shoes.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I talk a lot about marketing/sales on this blog because it’s crucial to your success, but in this case there’s a real trade off between growing revenue and keeping your current customers happy. The Bottom of Your Funnel For the sake of this example let’s say you have a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Always Be Testing The biggest lesson I learned while taking the site from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a month (revenue, not profit), is that there are a lot of great theories about marketing, but no one can tell you the exact thing that’s going to lead to an uptick in sales. Marketing Isn’t Coding.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

It then crunches those numbers together with an expected conversion rate and expected price to give you an idea of expected monthly revenue. Maybe we can’t rely on our freemium, advertising-based, viral revenue model, though. The thing is, the Google AdWords Keyword Tool is wrought with land mines. Except for one last thing.

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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. Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service. All key technologies for autonomous driving.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Innovation is almost insane by definition: most people view any truly innovative idea as stupid, because if it was a good idea, somebody would have already done it. Knowledge of exactly what’s strong and weak about the code base. For years, he’s avoided taking any revenue inconsistent with optimizing the user experience.

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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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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

They cover topics like how to pivot your product and/or revenue model to find market fit, how to test a business idea before building the business, how to find a business model for your company, and how to build great companies. Massive markets that you don’t need to understand to run a software company.

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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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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names. Please register for a free account.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Confusion about what to measure and definition of success continues to hold back social media spending – [link]. 15 Useful Infographics For Designers And Developers – [link]. 15 Useful Infographics For Designers And Developers – [link]. Industrial Design Web Links Review April – Design Juices [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. So first a short list of some key definitions.

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