Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One.” In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Skills might not be applicable to next project Employee turnover (loss of company-provided training and familiarity) 2.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Entrepreneurs have to get really comfortable with rejection, especially as a first-time founder. This is what most founders do. It can be a small and nimble startup like Origin, or a company with 50 employees and hiring more every quarter. The same goes for recruiting employees. Solve the rest later. This slows you down.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 On Launching and Finding Early Traction.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

By hosting all of this data in one financial dashboard, teams can have a central view of the finances of projects, along with the tools to make informed decisions that help them understand the financial performance of each field. Vadim Katcherovski is the Founder and CEO of Project Management software platform, Easy Projects.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One ”. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner ”. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2013

The picture to the left is of Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder and CTO, giving Josie Health, the CEO of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County , a check for $676,000. Part of that vision became the agile software development products that Rally makes. But Ryan’s vision was always bigger than that.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It was summer 1986, the fall-out from Chernobyl was blowing over Europe and, after graduating in engineering science, I undertook a software development project for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. My first job was writing software systems to monitor the nuclear reactor core and to predict the future failure of cooling components.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. That changes the annual cost of your employee from $60,000 to $69,000 with an associated change in hourly cost: 20 WD/month, $36/hour. Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

A week ago I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ How to Select an Ideal Startup Co-Founder ”. In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. 16- Rise of citizen developers. 2021 is going to be the year of the citizen developer – someone without formal software development training who uses IT tools and technology to create a business application.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2020

Try to look for people who can replace you – not as the founder but a team who has the zeal to start donning one of the many hats you wear as an entrepreneur. . Employees must learn to identify malfunctions. While seeking continuous improvement, don’t assume that you have to teach your employees to make them work better.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

That’s what I found most attractive about software development: building things. As an employee, I never waited for instructions to do something. What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Paul Jozefak, co-founder and managing director of innovation laboratory Liquid Labs , argues that outsourcing innovation will become a mainstream business practice and a key driver of growth, specifically in the tech sector. Corporate bureaucracy creates inertia, stifles creativity and instills a fear of failure in employees.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

“No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. » More. Loading… Markets. » More.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

When it comes to scaling your startup’s Web development resources (or lack thereof), it seems like you can never have enough assistance. Andrew Schrage , Money Crashers Personal Finance. . If development is ancillary to your business (because you are brick and mortar), then outsourcing makes a ton of sense. And at what price?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Skype Founder, Niklas Zennström – words for young entrepreneurs – [link]. Core Peer Groups: How I Found a Co-Founder, Built a Prototype, and Raised $5M in 4 Weeks&# – [link]. 14 Year Old Develops Top iPhone App; Dethrones Angry Birds – [link]. Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties – [link].

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Notice that I didn’t say I wouldn’t invest in a founder with an MBA; there are many amazing entrepreneurs and investors with MBAs, such as my friend Aneel Bhusri of Workday. My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Notice that I didn’t say I wouldn’t invest in a founder with an MBA; there are many amazing entrepreneurs and investors with MBAs, such as my friend Aneel Bhusri of Workday. My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. I discovered this firsthand when I contracted a software developer to build a system for the English teaching company that allowed classes to be purchased and scheduled via web application. If not, it’s time to get good at finding employees and hire an expert.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

I hope our products at Tipsy Elves do that for people every day, but in 2020 I’m making a more intentional effort to bring joy daily for the people around me and for my employees. More conscious effort to remember the power of showing gratitude, especially to our employees. Thanks to Evan Mendelsohn, Tipsy Elves ! #5-

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

So what’s wrong the product development model? The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.)

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Though the waterfall model is specifically to software development, it’s core principles resonate beyond software and into startups across the board.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. I’d bet anything that fewer students that participate in hackNY —will wind up in finance jobs relative to their computer science peers who just follow existing recruiting tracks. So where to start?

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

I like to be able to take public transportation and have meetings with founders, sometimes spontaneously. I may find myself having an IM conversation with a founder, and think it would be best to just grab coffee and scribble on a whiteboard. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still trying to make money with my investments.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? He basically outsources everything. Sure Payroll is a good service. Start a blog.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He begins by explaining how he arrived at his conclusion: I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder – a software engineer who works for no cash – to help me build my dream website. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The traditional method of product development, known as the waterfall model , the design and creation of a product follows a very liner, and sequential process. Though the waterfall model is specifically to software development, it’s core principles resonate beyond software and into startups across the board.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Or, put another way, great product managers are often the “weird kids” in the MBA program who, while sitting in a finance class, wonder if they should have enrolled in a design school or coding bootcamp instead. (I Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. Unrealistic expectations – No, I can’t build a Facebook clone in a week. The UI is the 10% above the water.

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