Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

For example, Beantown looks to data analytics jobs Boston police can rely upon to determine where in the city crime occurs for officer distribution. In a recent report, the BLS includes new management, teaching, and software engineering positions that focus on data analytics. Safety is another advantage of data analytics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

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

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As he notes, you have to be able to advance the learning curve fast in software development because changes occur at such a rapid pace. Things like negotiating distribution channels and partners and how to handle market expansions. It was interesting, because that transition wasn’t as challenging as you might think it would be.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Design, print and distribute. It’s now the name given to eye-catching and simple advertisements that can be distributed across social media, and not just in your city. Software like Adobe Spark’s flyer maker can assist in creating both digital and physical flyers. Flyers were once a traditional-only affair.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) (You get an introduction to reimbursement early here, while the details are described later in the “Revenue” lecture.).

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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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. It means you’ve set up good tooling so that developers can attack problems quickly without a lot of grunt work.

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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. For medical devices it might be mechanical engineering, clinical trials, regulatory approval, freedom to operate (intellectual property) and figuring out a reimbursement strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 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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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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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2017

The movie is about a set of Indian software developers in the US on H1-B visas. Amy and I committed to match up to $25,000 of a $55,000 fundraising campaign to help get wider distribution for move. A little over a year ago I wrote a post about a documentary Amy and I were helping fund called For Here or To Go.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

OPEN platform provides software developers with the perfect platform for distributing, and monetizing, their products on the blockchain. In order for cryptocurrencies to reach the next stage of their evolution, they need be as convenient as fiat currencies are for consumers.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 2, 2014

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development. Part 3: described what we’re going to do about it. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. Part 5: Value proposition and customer segments in Life Sciences.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

10- Software development Photo Credit: Derek Bruce Developing software that can safeguard online accounts for small businesses is, in my opinion, a wonderful business to begin, particularly if you have a talent for technology and are interested in finding a means to thwart the efforts of hackers.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). Even if are not a software developer, hardware hacker or bio engineer – I am confident that you know people who are. Today, with about 7.2

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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 Every part of our organization has members of the team that are distributed all over the world. Focus on the East.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Best practices in software development started to move to agile development in the early 2000’s. This methodology improved on waterfall by building software iteratively and involving the customer. Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.)

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. You could then distribute flyers asking potential customers to contact you about the service, and find out how many are interested.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Back in 2009, Cloudera placed news of its Distribution for Hadoop launch in tech blogs and reputable news sources , and reached 1.5 Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names. Blogger outreach services streamline connecting with the blogs driving the conversation you’re joining.

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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. Ukraine has never had a lot of investment possibilities for hardware startups.

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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. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2013

For years we’ve worked in small, distributed engineering teams and we’ve always struggled to find the right tool for communication. We primarily use chat because software engineering is very text-oriented. We found that it’s easiest for us to talk to people who really get the value in a user base that consists of software developers.

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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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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. This includes choosing best of breed by cloud vendor (Google for tensorflow, AWS for s3 and serverless, etc) and also distributing workloads over multiple clouds.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

All this changed for good when it became known that neurodiverse people can be super talented mathematicians, artists, engineers or software developers. In fact, companies in London can create remote jobs and build distributed teams in high unemployment areas in the UK, not abroad.

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Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Unless you’re a software developer, you’ve probably never heard of Git. Developed out of necessity by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to host the Linux kernel, it’s recently exploded in popularity. Developed out of necessity by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to host the Linux kernel, it’s recently exploded in popularity.

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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.

Software 48

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

An Ode to Distributed Teams | iDoneThis blog – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Amazon Is Special and Apple Is Not—in 1 Paragraph | Derek Thompson-The Atlantic – [link].

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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. How can we optimize for global distribution. I’m not the kind of guy who is always looking around for new opportunities. How will mobile change.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Being iterative is not only for software development but equally important in being a startup. miiCard will build the user base directly and through partnering vendors using multi-channel distribution strategy. miiCard will build the user base directly and through partnering vendors using multi-channel distribution strategy.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

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. When your time distribution is uneven. . – Rob Fulton, Audio Luminaries.

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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. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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