YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

While traditional offshoring to Asia or Eastern Europe has always been lauded for its cheap labor, for companies that practice agile, or require better collaboration, communication, and a higher level of engagement, the advantages of nearshore software development are clear. What is the difference between offshoring and nearshoring?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. In other words, a company that is prepared to fund success is more likely to achieve that success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. Accounting?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 9, 2012

Tips On Surviving Technical Due Diligence – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. This is a good resource for email subject lines: [link]. The Importance of Brand in an Era of Digital Darwinism – [link]. – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

.” —  Eric Falcao , CTO, Sredfast Eric Falcao Security, Compliance, and Disaster Recovery A CTO develops and implements organization-wide policies and processes for site availability, information security, and privacy as well as Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning. There are two types of CTO’s: Up-and-Out, and Down-and-In.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

How Much Information Should you Give VCs for Due Diligence? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Orbeus Trains Machines To Recognize Faces, Emotions, Broccoli – [link]. The Right Way To Angel Invest – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Giving Due Diligence Calls Their Due – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Should you launch (your company or new product/service) at a conference? – [link]. Love seeing all the VC activity in the Chicago area!

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

Good reminder from Fred Wilson that your instincts should sometimes guide you when due diligence does not – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 4 Ways to Get Customers to Open Your Emails | Entrepreneur – [link].

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Should You Build or Buy Your Micro-ISV? sent) October 11th, 2008 | Software Development Building your startup? I’m in a Book! Check out my book Like this post?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? How will we find and interview developers? How do we motivate and manage developers? How can we address this risk? What technology research is required?

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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