steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How should one go about pricing their software product? How Much Equity Do Your Employees Deserve? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? LinkedIn – [link].

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. I could point to countless examples of mediocre software being unleashed upon the general population, after which people like you and me have to help replace it with something decent. In fact, not having one can be more helpful than anything else.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 24, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The idea is to “buy&# yourself freedom to do what you want by building equity in web properties (as opposed to doing this through real estate, which is the more common path). Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Interested? Check out my book Like this post?

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Plan Software. Sales and Marketing Software. UK Business Plan Software. More Business Software. I have given him the document that your software has produced (I’m not done with it yet) and he has proposed the following compensation plan. Invoiced monthly and due upon receipt. Equity – 1.0%

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. He opens the code and sees calls that don’t close database connections, no database column indexes, and a snarl of spaghetti he knows will take a few months to untangle. If you don’t have passion for your code/product/startup everyone will know.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. For instance, I’ve been warned when being introduced by other entrepreneurs not to trust certain older VCs due to their disposition towards using young startups to do their friends favors, prove a point, gain some insight, etc.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. Sweat equity or salary? We like sitting at home or in coffee shops on our laptops coding away fun projects. Or do you just want a code monkey?

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). Backup Software. Blog Software. CRM Software. Help Desk Software. Monitoring Software. Project Management Software. More Software.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

link] / Thanks, Anand blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

link] / Thanks, Anand blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. What you don’t know Business founders who don’t code use bad proxies for picking technical co-founders (&# 10 years with Java!&# ).

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Aside from the weekly trough on Saturday there is very little fluctuation month to month (what can I say, I guess reading Software by Rob is not everyone’s favorite Saturday night activity). Long Half-life – SEO, email subscribers, RSS subscribers, Facebook fans (in some instances). The Interesting Part.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

As a result, local universities here churn out thousands of new graduates each year who can spell Microsoft but understand nothing about proper software engineering. Silicon Valley is a great place for technology startups in no small part due to its culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Culture creation is not easy.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

” Data Collective prides itself on its deeply technical core team, and the Big Data chops of its extended group of 35 equity partners, who, while Data Collective wouldn’t reveal specific names, all work or have worked at companies like Akmai, Zynga, LinkedIn, Apple, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter, IBM, Citrix, Airbnb and VMware.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. Participation" means that investors "double dip" by getting both their liquidation preference and their equity allocation. - This is a downside protection term.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. It’s all about the code at that point, and being lost in codespace is fun and rewarding in its own right. Mired In Code. Technology Review. Full RSS - Comments RSS.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). The alternative is to offer them equity in your company.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 by Nivi on February 27th, 2008 Here are more frequently asked questions about advisors. Finally, there is a beauty to paying in equity rather than an equivalent amount of cash. Equity is the gift that keeps on giving.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. How I can find the right investor (software)?

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

like courtney benson 460 days ago i agree that these are questions that one should ask but in the end result one can do all the due diligence possible and still wind up in a bad situation or the opposite can happen. 2 comments Mint Life Know your money. Live your life. This is how the innovation wheel keeps turning.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Many partnerships don’t make it past this stage, devolving into a tangled mess about who owns the idea and the code and what the compensation should be. 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.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? Pure brilliance.

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