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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

Why Investors Should Demand This. I quite often get a call where a founder raised $150K of initial money and has spend $120K on in-house or outsourced development and the software is 90% done. If it stays at a few hours per month, then using something like Founder Institute's FAST agreement probably makes sense.

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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

Customers enjoy online shopping; their demands create enormous opportunities for eCommerce company’s growth. Keep in mind that some of the development tools like WordPress themes and Magento framework aren’t free. Building a software product, the massive part of your budget is the developers’ salary. Hourly rate.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. Toyota is a software company. Johnson and Johnson is a software company. Many more companies have realized they need to become software companies; otherwise, they risk becoming the Nokia or Blackberry of yesteryear.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009.

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Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data

blog.alinelerner.com

Frequency of buzzwords (programming languages, frameworks, OSes, software packages, etc.). Though I’m generally not too excited by judging someone on pedigree, having been able to hold down a demanding job at a competitive employer shows that you can actually, you know, hold down a demanding job at a competitive employer.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. This is a legal framework designed to harness the entrepreneurial power of for-profit enterprise while preserving a company’s essential purpose. As of late 2020, we’ve deployed approximately $4M across 23 investments. “We

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

Use frameworks in interviews to explain your qualifications and show your thought-processes. The demands of the role often add up to a full schedule that can drive even the best product managers to lose sight of their market and their customers. In my roadmapping workshop I often use ‘ now, next, later’ as a framework.