Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The good news for startups and other businesses with limited funds (or, who have financially savvy owners) is that you don’t (necessarily) need to hire an expensive team of software developers to create an app. It’s hard enough to learn how to fund a business without worrying about mobile app development costs.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Convenience First and foremost, you must decided whether to work with individuals or development companies.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. The developer – who created his first product, a CMS and eCommerce web app back in 2008 – says that development on his product will never be done.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

Look for software that allows you to create custom filters and segments, enabling you to focus on the most relevant leads for your business. Integration Capabilities To streamline your lead generation and marketing processes, it is important to choose software that integrates seamlessly with your existing tools and platforms.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at the challenges users of real estate software development services face and when your company should consider building its own real estate CRM. Your real estate CRM system will need the assistance of a skilled developer that is well-versed in the integration process.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

Software development is an ongoing project. We developed Pages based on actual conversations we had with our customers,” explains Kenny Rueter, Kajabi co-founder and CEO. “We That personal approach to software development has been a key feature of Kajabi’s culture since the company launched in 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

The main focus of a new business should be its growth and development. Software Development. When you have an in-house team of developers, you can’t expect them to have knowledge in every skill and technology out there. Risk management is another reason you should consider outsourcing software development.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Project/ Product Management. Business / Finance.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

When it comes to scaling your startup’s Web development resources (or lack thereof), it seems like you can never have enough assistance. Here’s what they had to say about whether or not to outsource technology development: 1. Developers get bored with one project after a while. And at what price? Agencies thrive on innovation.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Agile marketing takes its inspiration from Agile software development, which is how 90% of companies develop software today. Many marketing groups focus on how many marketing campaigns they can run, how many marketing emails they can send out, or how much marketing content they can generate.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

Get a pro account so you can email people and start to build a relationship. You need to develop a thick skin and not let life knock you down so hard that you can’t get up. After that, he spent five years working for a tiny software development firm in Jacksonville Beach. Tenacity is essential, says Justin.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Developing successful agile innovation methods can drive companies to great new heights. When developing agile innovation methods for your team, consider the following: Are the requirements of the product or project uncertain? — Agile methods work well when the requirements are uncertain. Is this a software development project?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. Why use this term?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We'll have an email address so people can communicate with us without picking up the phone.". Eventually I developed stories like the following, each tuned to a certain category of listener.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, if you receive an email and forward it along to your client, you might not know it contains a virus. The costs of Professional Indemnity insurance vary widely by profession – management consultants and software developers can expect to pay around £114-£174 a year on average, while architects can expect to pay upwards of £1,300.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

My post on How to Fix Obamacare generated plenty of feedback – some public and some via email. One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” We just had to go build it to prove our point.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Owners no longer have to buy management software meant for big business. One example would be generating order confirmation emails after a customer completes a purchase online.

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Future of the Web is Small, Academic Earth, Beatles Rock Band, Top Developer Blogs, et al. 95% of developers are comfortable, and probably excel at, being technicians.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 7, 2013

I’ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. I just got an email asking about exactly this: “I’m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn’t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers.

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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. Still, I thought Id share this email that happened to arrive during class. Talk about waste.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. To begin drop-shipping, you must locate a supplier and develop a website.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Say you’re a Mac user and need video recording, image capturing and annotating software – perhaps you simply need something nifty to manipulate videos and pictures for Web use - but unwilling to shell out the dough for Adobe’s full Creative Cloud suite, you may want to consider Voila by software developer Global Delight.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. I also wrote an entire series on the topic of Startup Boards if you want to do any more reading that link has several articles you can dig into.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 3, 2022

Email readers, continue here…] So, consider this: Make “fast” a tool for use as an inducement for particularly important customers or orders, or at times when resources are underutilized. About “scope” with development-related issues. One answer to this puzzle. There are other ways to describe this.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Staying disciplined is an ongoing process of self improvement and I’m always looking for new tricks and tactics, so when I saw a link to Achieving top mental performance for software developers I clicked straight through, and to my delight I found a great post. The diagram below captures the central point brilliantly.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 14, 2011

Fred Wilson had an excellent post up this morning titled Social Media’s Secret Weapon – Email. I completely agree that email is the key communications channel for social media and have written about this before in posts like 100% Click Through Rate , Email – The Original Social Graph and Email Is Still The Best Login.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Here's an example of that kind of email. Make sure you go through the 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. Do you have dollars to pay for development? Get to know the developers.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I sent the link for the post out to the Foundry Group CEO email list and it generated a great discussion thread, including one of the companies sharing their full day interview / evaluation process which includes a four hour coding exercise. It’s an extremely tight hiring market for software developers right now.

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Software By Rob

JULY 22, 2010

I’m subscribed to his mailing list, and recently received an email update about a new version of the app; the kind of email I would typically delete without thinking. But three things about this email drew me in until I found myself reading the entire email and clicking the link contained within.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

I'd suggest: Startup CTO or Developer , Startup Founder Developer Gap , Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO. In some cases, this changes the conversation from "I need help hiring a full-time CTO for my startup" to "I need help finding a part-time CTO who can direct a full-time developer."

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2023

Why it’s great: Springwise is a great website to promote your app or software. They have a huge following of app and software developers, so you’ll surely get some great exposure. The publication provides a 360-degree view of Enterprise Application Development and the latest news and forums.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce. Development dollars have been spent and the system is not going to be able to be used for the business. Possibly even more interesting is the rapidly growing data sources.

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