The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

It’s not just the hardware product design process and all of what this entails – from developing and testing a prototype, to engineering the mechanics, electronics and software, to setting the product up for manufacturing. certified test equipment and test environment) results available for governing agency review.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Two developments have changed the face of startup investing in the UK in recent years. The first development is increased capital efficiency. The second development is SEIS and EIS. Both of these schemes use the tax code to make it more attractive for high-net-worth individuals to invest in startups.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

To explain the difference, let’s take me as an example: I’m a software entrepreneur, and, in recent years, a member of an angel investment group. I get involved in detail when the group is looking at startups in software, web, mobile apps, or financial forecasting. It’s reviewed and revised frequently.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s not enough to review the localized website and decide it’s not offensive. Your team would then have to spend more time editing code to make sure everything is corrected. If it passes, the build moves on to the testing team, and if it fails, it returns to the development team.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. The real reason to build an MVP is to do early tests of key Startup Metrics for the business. Review the code being built. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

This is Part 2 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.??? About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?".

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Whether you’re a conversion optimization agency, consultant, or in-house at a startup or enterprise, investing in the right conversion optimization tool is a big decision. Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. It’s not cheap.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

All of us know in software companies that scrum is the most significant agile methodology for handling software projects. In spite of its well-known advantages (flexibility, quick feedbacks, adaptability and better communication), we might be uncertain whether to use this framework or follow a traditional way for the development.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? First, take a deep breath and remember that every little software company on Earth in under this threat. What is scary is another scrappy, smart startup like yours — another tree-shrew.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

I talk to roughly 2 or 3 new startups every week who need advice from an experienced CTO. Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. But I loved reading them and so did my team. Defensibility in Software. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Your IT Reviewer. This is the “deal prevention” team in many big corporations. They’ve had years of business-unit managers buying software solutions they didn’t need and that eventually become shelfware. Procurement (or Biz Dev Team or M&A Department). Biv Dev teams?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Cash is the fuel of every startup. It continually amazes me how two startups, seemingly comparable in stage and objective, can be so far apart in their burn rate. Here are some recommendations on how to keep the rate low, and help your startup to prosper at the same time: Measure it and manage it. Which would you bet on?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. Typically, team members must be sourced internally, with their performance and credentials based on prior corporate assignments and relationships. Every such deal was an exception.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Cash is the fuel of every startup. It continually amazes me how two startups, seemingly comparable in stage and objective, can be so far apart in their burn rate. Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. Which would you bet on? Great strategy.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

From marketing to product development, to new software tools and communications, the list is almost endless as to the digital transformations taking place. For startups looking to embrace digital disruption, this an introductory app builder and monitor is good way to get off the ground before scaling.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So, before starting an eCommerce business , follow these tips to better plan out your site and accurately budget your startup costs. An advantage of Shopify is that you have a clear breakdown of costs per month based on your required features whereas different WooCommerce features may require different amounts of development work.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

We have over 160,000 developers on our platform from over 140 countries capable of writing code in more than 50 programming languages. We want to make sure that every time we match an engineer with a company, individuals get up to speed and seamlessly integrate into their new team as quickly as possible. What’s the format?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

What was born as a year long backpacking trip in Asia evolved into something a lot more meaningful, and 5 years and two startups later we can look back at the mistakes we made and the lessons we learned along the way. You may well have to trade-off your travel dreams versus your tech startup requirements. Be honest with clients.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

When I started my startup journey two years ago, one word came to my mind whenever I thought about marketing: liars. As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

Startups have popped up left and right to show off their innovative new tools, and Google — the tech giant above all tech giants — now claims to be a machine learning company. The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Not all sales tools are created equal, though.

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David Cohen

JULY 18, 2017

Of course nobody wants their startup to fail, but the fact is that it happens and it’s a completely normal part of company building. At Techstars, part of our Code of Conduct is to communicate with your investors at least every six months. Failing is a normal part of startups. ” Exactamundo.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Cash is the fuel of every startup. It continually amazes me how two startups, seemingly comparable in stage and objective, can be so far apart in their burn rate. Here are some principles on how to do that, and help your startup to prosper and live another day: Measure it and manage it. Which would you bet on? Great strategy.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? Did they have a Weak Development Team ?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The growth of parcel services has been boosted due to – Free trade agreements (FTAs) signed between various countries and the development of special economic zones (SEZ) in different economies. The hourly rate levied by the developers based on their location and market conditions. Final Thoughts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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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. Those who have the endurance are the ones that tend to lead teams and join startups, because you just cant be successful in a startup situation without empathy.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The server commands that you’ll need to code to run a basic Pass aren’t very complicated — but of course, if you are building a very dynamic Pass that heavily integrates into your back-end systems, it will most likely get much more complicated. Pass creation services. PassWallet (Android port).

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The server commands that you’ll need to code to run a basic Pass aren’t very complicated — but of course, if you are building a very dynamic Pass that heavily integrates into your back-end systems, it will most likely get much more complicated. Pass creation services. PassWallet (Android port).

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Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review Mobile 129

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I never implied that startups are all great and job hoppers are all at fault. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. ” Startups launched around seemingly mundane, insular problems glow about their abilities to change the world. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

We have two primary techniques for failing fast: - The first is to create a user prototype (disposable software that is meant to simulate what the real software would look like and behave like) and then test that prototype on real users and customers (mostly face-to-face with users from the target market). -

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