YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Encouraging and supporting a career in tech continues to be a key focus in Singapore, with the government announcing a $120m fund to prepare and develop Singapore talent for 30,000 new ICT jobs by 2020. Salaries in tech are also soaring, with high demand for individuals who can bring specific skillsets to the table. Keep learning.

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Singapore Acquisition Agile Open Source 138

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2016

What would happen if I forced you to develop all your precious, proprietary, secret-sauce code in a public Github repository? For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? One thing would be: You would be judged.

Open Source 120

Open Source API Framework Salary 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more.

Cost 255

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 255

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Although most aren’t in a place to be startup cofounders for financial reasons, I now have access to a large talent pool once I can offer a salary. Then go to hacker events and developer meetups. Or even contribute to an open source project. Many of us have said we’d love to work with one another again.

Technical Cofounder 40

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 40

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? If you’ve got tips for other business owners or want to share your experiences with hiring developers, please leave us a note in the comments section. Google’s App Inventor is a good example of a DIY tool.

Small Business 104

Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

readwrite.com

JANUARY 25, 2013

Gartner claims that Big Data is overhyped and about to fall into the trough of disillusionment, but salaries for Big Data pros suggest that enterprises are. So much so, in fact, that enterprises are paying a premium to hire job candidates with Big Data-relevant technology skills, as Dice.coms 2012-2013 annual salary survey reveals.

Open Source 58

Open Source Salary Cloud IP 58

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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LLC 75

LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Expensive software stacks, primitive tools, million dollar server farms, and 50+ person development teams have given way to free, open source, high-quality tools, small teams, and rentable infrastructure. And just when you think it couldn’t get any easier to create software, it does.

Software 111

Software Open Source Salary Business Model 111

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Develop and refine your idea. Develop and refine your idea. salaries or wages for any employees. There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Write a business plan. Decide your legal business structure.

Angel Investor 85

Angel Investor Small Business Business Plan Intellectual Property 85

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In that directly tackled the problem of acquiring customers.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Developers. Gather quotes from multiple (at least 3) development companies for building a minimum feature prototype. Do an initial financial projection based on competitors’ prices, your development costs, and the advertising costs to see if your product is financially viable. Newsletters. Write For Us. User Interface.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

We hear about, for example, GitHub has become a hub of technological development and sold to Microsoft for seven and a half billion, and Salesforce has got over a million members, and all these different examples. Do you want them to be producing technology such as happens in the open source world? Communities take work.

Community 55

Community Social Media Africa Kansas City 55

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I’ll discuss what skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation youll need, and much more. What is bootstrapping?

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. As a rule of thumb, you should double every employee’s salary in estimating employee costs, so less is more.

Burn Rate 125

Burn Rate SEM Social Network Angel Investor 125

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Develop and refine your idea. Develop and refine your idea. salaries or wages for any employees. There are self-hosted open-source portfolio apps available that allow you to combine your uniquely branded website with a gallery of your work. Develop and refine your idea. Write a business plan.

Business Plan 64

Business Plan Small Business Administration Hiring Social Media 64

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the hottest trends in tech right now is NoSQL (If you’re a software developer get acquainted with it). The irony of Bray’s argument is of course that Android – the part of Google that pays his salary, is also Java-based (well, pending the outcome of the Oracle suit anyway ) and extremely innovative.

Java 43

Java Demand Web Framework 43

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. My starting salary was $27,000. There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. It is neither. People form perceptions of you whether you like it or not.

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Expensive software stacks, primitive tools, million dollar server farms, and 50+ person development teams have given way to free, open source, high-quality tools, small teams, and rentable infrastructure. And just when you think it couldn’t get any easier to create software, it does.

Software 40

Software Open Source Salary Business Model 40

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Expensive software stacks, primitive tools, million dollar server farms, and 50+ person development teams have given way to free, open source, high-quality tools, small teams, and rentable infrastructure. And just when you think it couldn’t get any easier to create software, it does.

Software 40

Software Open Source Salary Business Model 40

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. Develop your brand. Yet they still need to create a marketing plan, develop strategies, and execute. Develop Your Brand Identity. So, why are you still working for “the man”? Choose your niche.

Small Business Administration 86

Small Business Administration Small Business Social Media Elevator Pitch 86

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer. Part of my question would be whether youd be expecting a finite investment from me (and Im not offering myself to you: just using me as an example of a candidate developer). An employee is normally paid a salary or wages.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Aside from working at Best Buy.

Software Review 42

Software Review Software Product Salary 42

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). Costs range from $300-$1000 per year.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

That also backfired on service development since we had to focus on current problems instead of adding new functionalities. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. You can guess how it influenced user experience.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Do extensive research, connect with their social media outlets, and learn about their development. Come to the interview with your own questions, ones beyond salary, hours, and benefits, that really demonstrate an understanding, appreciation, and willingness to explore the company.

Hiring 196

Hiring Startup Open Source API 196

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In my previous post, Why Leave A Six Figure Salaried Career For Online Entrepreneurship , I wrote about the various business ventures I have tried and tested over the years. The development of the website took just about 30 days, with another 30 days for testing, tweaks, edits and content upload. It was brutal.

SEO 86

SEO PPC America Design 86

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. This was not uncommonduring the Bubble, especially in companies run by business types, who thought of software development as something terrifying thattherefore had to be carefully planned. Paul Erdos wasparticularly good at this.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I don’t know any developers. These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! I need money for the servers.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The company eventually closed, and in 2007 I started PeerTV with two other guys as a spin-off, offering client-server software open platform for IPTV. Media centers were a hot topic, and I used the XBOX media center to develop the product. Me and my partner, Boaz Yehuda, worked without a salary.

Aggregator 84

Aggregator Caching PHP 84

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Without receiving a real salary, I’d be wary of signing a non-compete in an area which I have domain expertise in. The founder who owns 51% of Company B can elect to pay himself a salary of $1 USD. Blame Culture: “Who Gets Shot” National Endowment for Open Source. Personas for Customer Development.

Sweat Equity 41

Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And let’s suppose you want to allocate just a little time for career development. Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow).

America 330

America Employee Hiring HTML 330

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies. Smith recruited top tech talent to serve across government collaborating on pressing issues, from data science, AI and open source, to inclusive economic growth and criminal justice reform.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343