Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

Idea people must surround themselves with people who build momentum and get things done, including production, marketing, finance, and sales. Gates was a software developer genius, but Ballmer upheld the marketing and business side. Employees are engaged, committed, and accountable. Paul Allen was the idea visionary.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the last decade, SaaS (Software as a Service) has become a very popular model for new software product development. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs. This includes the design, development, launch, and enhancement of the SaaS application. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2020

Remote workers are hired regardless of their location (e.g., This is a new paradigm for doing business–the entire company is considered as one contiguous unit, despite the distributed nature of its offices or employees. To get up and running quickly with overseas hiring companies can make use of Employer-of-Records or EoR.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

While all of that sounds good, finding and hiring top talent takes time and resources, so much that when you do find the right freelancers, you would definitely want to keep a good relationship with them and continue working with them on future projects and guarantee that they deliver high-quality work. Not sure where to start?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

If you want to take your business to the next level, you should consider app development. Are you are a startup that needs to market your products and services ? Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. How to Hire Remote Developers.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

But, you need to build that first product right. On the other side of the equation, there are a growing number of design, development, and digital media shops who are hungry to expand, or swap focus, to building a company that’s more than just a service shop.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Great employees, especially ones with technical skills, are often hard to come by—and the competition for them is fierce. I’ve got two easy research tricks you can do to find out exactly how you should be differentiating yourself to make the best impression on potential employees. Use Glassdoor to find employee pain points.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In order to find out, I asked a panel of 12 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What are the pros/cons of hiring an agency to do development work, vs. having all your technical talent in house? Here’s what they had to say about whether or not to outsource technology development: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

But, just an importantly, they’re also in business to put food on the table for their families and employees. With people counting on them—their families and their employees’ families—they have to carry on. Execut­ing an idea and selling products is a path to providing for people we care about. Does your family come first?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity.

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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. Skills might not be applicable to next project Employee turnover (loss of company-provided training and familiarity) 2.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

We write often about ways small business can reduce expense, increase productivity, and operate more efficiently through a lean approach to marketing, technology, and operations. Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. Reduce, reduce, reduce. Expense, that is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Product or services. Don’t outsource your core competency. Creative or operational.

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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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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2015

We asked 12 founders from the YEC to share with us when they knew it was time to hire a manager (or a few managers) to oversee the day-to-day activities of their business. See Also 11 Signs It’s Time to Get Rid of a Key Employee. When business development slows down. However, it’s hard to let go.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

You must have a passion for the problem and a love for building great products. 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. It doesn’t help your business grow by hiring someone who doesn’t have the necessary skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. Often these projects took 12–18 months so by the time companies shipped product they often found out that the product didn’t meet customer needs.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available. Automation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Product or services. Don’t outsource your core competency. Creative or operational.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

Hiring mistakes and turnover can be costly for any organization; according to the Society for Human Resource Management , it can cost as much as half of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. By Omer Tadjer, CEO and co-founder of Comeet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. As a result, candidates ranged from self-taught college dropouts or associate’s degree holders to PhD holders, ACM winners, MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Caltech students, and Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and Google interns and employees with a lot of people in between. Jun 21, 2013.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. And you will want to make sure you see what the particular designers have done, samples of their work product, their process, etc.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

That suggests that a store selling baby products could be a successful venture. With the increased demand for video content, a video marketing agency can offer a wide range of services, from video production to distribution and analysis. Thanks to Pete Chatfield, Household Money Saving ! #10- Thanks to Brenton Thomas, Twibi ! #17-

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. 2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV. In the many e-mails I received about that column, one of the most common questions was why didnt I list any hiring mistakes. About Eric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Product or services. Don’t outsource your core competency. Creative or operational.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

Corporate bureaucracy creates inertia, stifles creativity and instills a fear of failure in employees. X could spend months recruiting specialists to develop a product which matches it competitors. When they do put together a proposal for a new product, the internal bureaucracy at X will kick in. A growing trend?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Complex and high asset divorces will continue to hire divorce attorneys and divorce professionals for years to come. I foresee a shift in the way products are marketed. For skin and body care companies, our products can be seen as wellness supplies that can provide comfort during these stressful times. 5- Change in marketing.

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