Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”

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Board Effect

MAY 5, 2023

One of those decisions might be around discontinuing your board portal software to save money on technology costs. Insecure Internal Communication If board members are using non-secure communication tools such as email or messenger apps, there’s the potential for sensitive information to be distributed where it shouldn’t be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2016

For a software startup, a patent can be the intellectual property providing the key competitive advantage, or it can be an expensive non-defensible bureaucratic nightmare -- or both. Some argue to simply eliminate software patents, while others put their hopes in U.S. Patent offices can’t keep up with software technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2018

Payment software and gateways are usually very expensive and complex to use. With a new payment software that is designed specifically for these smaller companies, they get a chance to compete online with the mega travel companies. The software is free to install and only charges 1% of every booking made.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

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. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Back in 1999 when I got my first job in the venture industry I remember having a debate with my boss about the relative importance of product and distribution for startups. Since then the internet has changed everything and for most industries product is now far more important than distribution. Distribution must still be mastered.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2019

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Senior Software Engineer Carson Lv, a team leader from CouponBirds , a growing e-commerce company specialising in coupon code services and advertising. Nowadays most coupons are digital distributing online and many are delivered to highly targeted audiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. In Silicon Valley’s classic model, startups must start “asset light.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

The good news is that the reach of your new software application is instantly worldwide, and the bad news is that most people still prefer to work in their own native language. Tags: entrepreneur startup software localization translation business. Despite all the hype and free tools, there still is not ‘an app for that.’

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Version One Ventures

JULY 16, 2019

A question I have been pondering for some time now, especially since a lot of our portfolio companies are now distributed organizations …. According to the responses, entrepreneurs running remote organizations seem pretty happy with the current software stack. The post Do distributed teams need new tools?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

In contrast, generative AI has already inspired a myriad of compelling uses, and it’s easy to envision its integration across many categories of software. Generative AI software is often not responsible for keeping a human alive in a metal box going at high speed in heavy traffic. Will new, native distribution channels emerge?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

I explained why authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator , Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital , believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. Apple pulled ahead of other mobile phones in its early days largely because it cultivated an ecosystem of software developers who created iPhone apps to meet every consumer niche and need.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. How is software like a factory?” Operating systems, or anything where software has to be installed by every user, is usually batched up. You’re reading Joel on Software , stuffed.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

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. Software development? How is a business plan usually structured? For instance, what is it that you need the most?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2022

Businesses use SaaS or Software as a Service. This service allows companies to buy tools or software they need. Then, they only pay for the software, nothing less and nothing more. Software as a Service allows companies of all sizes to access transformative technology. Marketing Software. Sales Software.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Software and Equipment. Access to the appropriate IT software and equipment should be a necessity when working from home, but due to the rushed nature of many remote working schemes, for many this was not an initial focus. Further to this, it’s also imperative in ensuring shared files can be accessed securely.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. Assurance of Quality The testing stage of the software product development process is vital. They are highly detrimental to FinTechs because many APIs lack rate limiters.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Software testing requires smart people to develop smart solutions. CEO of software crowd testing company, testIO, Phil Soffer is one such person. It’s one of those things that’s almost impossible to explain to anyone who’s not involved in software, but our target market is people involved in software, so it’s fine.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2023

Afterward, the group must create a draft document, often done via document editing software or specialized SOP software, that includes steps to be taken, individual responsibilities, and any other relevant notes. After that, the SOP can be published and distributed across the organization.

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Board Effect

JULY 27, 2023

This is where technology comes into play, offering a streamlined solution to efficiently record, organize and distribute board meeting minutes. Minute-taking software allows secretaries to schedule board meetings and easily send out invitations electronically, which usually results in getting faster RSVPs.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. Wireframes.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Responsibilities are distributed. The responsibilities can then easily be distributed. Consider how compatible the software is with different platforms. In fact, there are many plug-ins available on the Internet that can be accessed for free. Better utility of the conference rooms. This is the most important benefit of all.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Consider investing in these four software categories to improve business performance and bring in more revenue. Marketing automation software. Customer relationship management software. That’s where customer relationship management (CRM) software comes in. Project management tools.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Online meeting software automates the process for board materials, voting solutions, evaluations, document sharing and board director recruiting. How Online Meeting Software Changes the Game for Nonprofits. The post How Online Meeting Software Changes the Game for Nonprofits appeared first on BoardEffect.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

. “People and machines are producing valuable information that could enrich our lives in so many ways, from pinpoint accuracy in predicting severe weather to developing customized treatments for terminal diseases, says Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel ‘s Datacenter Software Division.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

Furthermore, generative AI can generate entire paragraphs of text that sound like they were written by a human, as well as generate code for software development. It can also be used to generate realistic speech, music, or even entire songs.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2018

CEO of software crowd testing company, testIO, Phil Soffer. It’s one of those things that’s almost impossible to explain to anyone who’s not involved in software, but our target market is people involved in software, so it’s fine. The software business is very funny, because most of what you do doesn’t last.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Even the best software product may cause more harm than good if you use it improperly or do not take into account its limitations. This will prepare you for the scaling-up phase where you will only need to distribute the formulated guidelines among your new workers and monitor compliance. Software Choices. Hardware Costs.

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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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The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

In order to compete within your industry, you will need to analyze, create, and distribute content that attracts the right people. You waste great content if you are unable to distribute it across all audience touch points, so make sure you include all relevant channels that your current marketing budget allows.

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Rembrandt Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before you publish or distribute any type of messaging, your content needs to have three things: A goal. Once people see your content and access the call-to-action, you can track this information in a simple database or use one of the many software applications available. What’s that? You have no idea what’s working and what isn’t?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And describes himself as generally intrigued by advancements in software, cloud infrastructure, and engineering. After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO. He is also a Docker Captain.

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