Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. Centralized computing was giving way to smart, distributed devices.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2015

Management can reinforce this concept by basing sales commissions on payments collected rather than invoiced amounts. a software development and distribution company. Collecting payment is arguably more important than making the sale. Todd McDaniel is Vice President at Dynavistics Inc.,

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

We asked 12 founders from the YEC to share with us when they knew it was time to hire a manager (or a few managers) to oversee the day-to-day activities of their business. When business development slows down. The big sign for us was when we had a hard time continuing to focus on our business and strategic development.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2015

a software development and distribution company. Todd currently manages the software development and sales operations for Dynavistics including the design of new software features, management of partner relationships, and customer relationship management.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

8- Property management Photo Credit: Jaden Oh Property management is a good way to make money, especially if you already know how to run a business or are good at making software for property management. It's just that many homeowners in this city don't have the time to manage multiple properties.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Therefore the ideal medical device team might be a physician; engineer; operator; business development/financial analyst.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development. Raphaelle Loren - Managing Director – Health Practice at the Innovation Management Institute. Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it. Mira Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

“On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In When they’ve got a team of thousand freelancers, and they just need a better way to manage and pay them, they can bring them on to oDesk.”.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

“Minecraft” accounts for nearly all of Mojang’s revenue, highlighting the risk to Microsoft should interest in “Minecraft” dissolve, or Microsoft fails to produce “Minecraft” sequels or add-on software. school districts as a math, physics or resource management simulator. Minecraft” is already in use in some U.S.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Most of the startups in the tech industry, however, are centered around software. It is understandable since software development requires less time and fewer resources (particularly financial ones) than prototyping a piece of hardware. Since they won the main prize, they have been actively developing their product.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

First of all, the hiring managers were not necessarily aware of the various conditions neurodiverse people might be diagnosed with. All this changed for good when it became known that neurodiverse people can be super talented mathematicians, artists, engineers or software developers.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

There’s been lots of buzz for the need for a shared, distributed ledger but 2018 is the year we see production level use cases in the wild. Investment opportunities will abound as data ops becomes the new dev ops and the need for pipelining software to go from raw data to prepped data increases.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We provide crowdtesting for mobile and web apps using a network of people around the world who are good at testing software. I think there will be more software developed next year than this year, and therefore more need for testing, so I think that we have a great natural growth path.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I’ve been married for 22 years now and when I had my first company I just assumed I would run that company for the rest of my life and keep doing software development. People at Blockbuster and Kodak were smart, and they worked hard, but still didn’t manage to do that. How can we optimize for global distribution.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2018

We provide crowdtesting for mobile and web apps using a network of people around the world who are good at testing software. I think there will be more software developed next year than this year, and therefore more need for testing, so I think that we have a great natural growth path.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. This will include management of both organic and paid media and replying to any comments made on those posts. CRM experience is preferred, however, you will be trained.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Focus On Developers, Data And Big Problems | TechCrunch – [link]. What is Product Management? An Ode to Distributed Teams | iDoneThis blog – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Sachin Rekhi – [link].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. See Supporting New Managers and What Would You Do to Support New Managers? See Five Things Meme as an example. as an example.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

For our students, that can mean anyone from a Syrian refugee trying to make contact with his family back home, to a supply chain manager for a major apparel brand who wants to make sure his contract factory in Bangladesh doesn’t use forced labor. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Additionally, you’re not expected to excel at every single vertical of successfully managing the business. Most business plans aiming for seed funding, or any sort of initial support, or even for recruitment needs, are distributing the efforts and planning the projections over the business over the course of several years.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. Hello Tom, I can answer your questions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos: The ultimate disrupter | Fortune Management – [link]. How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

Did you know that traditional rewards, offered by most managers, aren’t always as effective as we think? The Facebook distribution dilemma – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Great insight.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. When I surveyed 30 hiring managers about which resume attributes they thought were most important, however, no one ranked number of errors highest.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Customer relationship management software. That’s where customer relationship management (CRM) software comes in. Project management tools. If project delays stemming from poor or non-existent communication are a common occurrence, project management tools can help better coordinate your teams and business units.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

This company is a project management tool that invented Ruby on Rails. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. So it gives you content, multiple distribution channels, and you start building this audience. A great example of that community was the Basecamp community.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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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. Read the preceding sentence again. It’s a big idea.)

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Daily email digest. Featured Jobs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Distributed Systems Software Engineer. Android Developer. Android / iOS / Python / Django Developer. Web Developer. Technical Support -- Key Accounts Manager. Platform Software Developer. Sr Developer (JavaScript/Flash). Software Cloud Engineer III. Software Cloud Project Manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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