Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with WordPress and DreamHost MicroISVs, Software Products and Startups: Software by Rob’s Most Popular Posts of 2008 → 8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career Becoming a Better Developer If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Sometimes, I meet someone that I feel a visceral connection with, because they are struggling with challenges that Ive experienced myself. In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering manage

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Startup Failures On The Rise UK Government To Launch VC Fund To Rescue Startups → Market Timing Is A Skill Not Luck Posted on December 7, 2008 by fnazeeri Selecting the ideal time to start a company is a skill, not just dumb luck.

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Jason Ball

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s that time of year, and I’m heading off into turkey, present and (hopefully) gadget land for a few weeks. No real posts (unless total boredom sets in) until 2009. Happy Holidays everyone! (Picture credit: gun show ). Tags: Other.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Many pundits and economists observe that we are in the midst of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. What they haven't fully yet processed is that we are in the midst of the greatest wave of government intervention in business since the New Deal. Across massive, diverse industries such as energy, health care and life sciences, financial services and automotive -- to name just a few -- we are embarking on arguably the most business-focused, activist US government in history

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. In this post I want to talk about the nuts and bolts of how to integrate continuous integration into your team, and how to use it to create two important feedback loops.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 9, 2008

In my previous post , I talked about some of the reasons I felt that the venture industry was broken and needed reform. This has been something that I’ve been thinking about for a long time now (~1.5 years or more) and became the basis for me starting K9 Ventures. The logic there was that instead of just identifying a problem, do something to solve it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Having early customers means balancing the needs of your existing customers with the desire to find new ones. And still being a startup means continuing to innovate as well as keep the lights on.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 12, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← White Collar Crime Spree How Much Is A Free Customer Worth? → A Squeeze On Boston Venture Valuations Posted on December 12, 2008 by fnazeeri Today there was a front page story in the Boston Business Journal about how the market’s downturn is putting a squeeze on local venture valuations.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← A-Round Valuations Down 25-50% While B- And C-Rounds Non-Existent Great Startup Event In Boston → Document Founder Agreements Early & Often Posted on December 11, 2008 by fnazeeri I just read this post by David Cohen on the Colorado Startups blog about “ boomerang founders.&# It’s a nice post on the hazards of flying loose with founder agreements in t

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Document Founder Agreements Early & Often White Collar Crime Spree → Great Startup Event In Boston Posted on December 11, 2008 by fnazeeri Last night I was a panelist at the Startup Clinic put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum here in Cambridge.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Market Timing Is A Skill Not Luck A-Round Valuations Down 25-50% While B- And C-Rounds Non-Existent → UK Government To Launch VC Fund To Rescue Startups Posted on December 7, 2008 by fnazeeri No, I'm not making this up.  According to this article in the Guardian, the UK government is putting £1 billion into a fund that will invest in startups.  The idea

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 Getting started with split-testing One of the startup founders I work with asked me a smart question recently, and I thought Id share it. Unlike most of the people whove endured my one-line split-testing talk, this team has taken it to heart. Theyre getting started creating their first A/B tests, and asked "Should we split-test EVERYTHING?

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