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. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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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. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. Hourly rate. Yes, there is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

. Most business owners dread having to talk with and hire lawyers. Some fear they’ll end up paying exorbitant legal fees or that they’ll receive bad advice that will destroy their business (if you’ve watched the show Arrested Development and have seen Barry Zuckerkorn in action, you’ll know exactly what I mean).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. 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. Compatible work styles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. 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. Compatible work styles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

Most entrepreneurs work long hours and weekends to get the job done. 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. Compatible work styles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We hear all the time about the importance of hiring the right people and the expanding universe of advice can be overwhelming; hire slow and fire fast, only hire the “right&# candidate; ask probing questions; check all references; blah blah blah. So to start, here’s why hiring sucks: 1.

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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. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Resting on your laurels with IP strategy and not having an IP programme may result in missed opportunities and increased business risk. One of my clients was concerned enough about this to set up a ‘clean room’ for a new software development project. Being strategic with your intellectual property (IP) can be really important.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete. Fast forward to 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Unfortunately, to many would-be entrepreneurs, getting past the dreaming phase and into the doing phase seems insurmountable — especially in a shaky economy where quitting your day job seems foolhardy and funding seems scarcer than, well, pay raises and affordable health insurance. Many a great entrepreneur has been derailed by burnout.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The company’s marketing strategy rests on the belief that its products and services represent a value-added approach to interpreting, qualifying, and understanding the complexities of the tunneling industry and the construction industry as a whole. We are very excited towards the development in the area of robotics and mixed reality hardware.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Reducing noise … should be a signal to rest of market … YC W13 Will Be Smaller - [link]. 12 Must Watch TED Talks for Entrepreneurs – [link]. Startups should look to hire from agencies | Technori- [link]. Good thoughts on startups hiring senior people – Old People | ben’s blog - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2011

Interesting perspective on how Southwest Airlines hires employees – [link]. Why Entrepreneurs Must Be Crazy – [link]. Finally, a day of rest. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Don’t compete on features – [link].

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This means that the easier your process is to teach, the easier it is to find employees who can do the work, the more employees you can hire, and the more profit you will make per sale. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Check out my book Like this post?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. What I’ve found during the last year of running the Micropreneur Academy is that once you’ve seen hundreds of websites and run fifty A/B tests you develop a sixth sense about how a site can be improved. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Long Live the King.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Whether you’re trying to get hired, promoted, funded or close a sale…passion wins. November 19th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Software Development , Startups Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. In five places.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Theoretically, that’s why I hired them. In parallel, we educated the rest of our own company how essential winning these product reviews were to our customer and our financial success.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The Startup Success Podcast – After the demise of The Micro-ISV Show, Bob Walsh is back discussing issues affecting software startups. Hire people in return for a share of your income stream instead of upfront cash. Check out my book Like this post?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2018

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs what they loved about “being their own boss.”. #1-

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. hey eric, love the blog.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad. He did a little of both during the rest of the time to keep himself interested, and maintain his skills in both arenas.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Rob (01:06): Yeah, I hired my first assistant in 2013. There's plenty of work for them to do, and you even think about hiring another one. John (05:51): Yeah, I know over the years, many years ago I hired an assistant out of the Asia area and the only way to align, as you said, was that they were going to work overnight.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2020

Here are the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- As an entrepreneur, it can sometimes be difficult to stay motivated because the traditional metrics of success– income, influence, etc.– 1- Periodic looks in the rearview mirror. Photo Credit: Nicole T. Rochester, MD.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

At IMVU, we would occasionally hire someone from a more traditional organization who had a hard time letting go of their “best practices&# and habits. This cycle repeats for a while, until the team either catches up to all the conflicts or just asks the rest of the team for a general check-in freeze. So new conflicts appear.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

9:19] You put in a lot of hours – there are a lot of entrepreneurs and startups some of who don’t achieve anywhere near the level of success you did – what toll did that take on your personal life? [12:51] And so when that revenue tripled and suddenly I was like, Oh, I can hire people to help me, like this thing is gonna work.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. What we do on a daily basis is a thousand times more secret than your "stealth" startup and we can still talk about it in more general terms than most "stealth" entrepreneurs talk about their project. This is utter bullshit.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s the story of persistence in entrepreneurs. As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. I try not to go out to entrepreneur events in LA every night – I have work to get done and a family.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list? And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? Maple Butter.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Chicago startups connecting with big local companies, entrepreneurs and corporations | by Wailin Wong – [link]. How To Apologize Online – [link].

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Almost four years ago, after a failed attempt to grow my consulting firm, I made the decision to never hire another employee. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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