Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

These are typically four to 12 week programs. I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. In fact, I know a few companies that put computer science grads through these types of programs as an on boarding process. revenue several years later.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

As a business blogger myself, I have given an inordinate amount of thought to the subject, and it has led me to create the 1M/1M Affiliate Program to support the work of media professionals who advocate entrepreneurship and innovation. One of them is the 1M/1M Affiliate Program we announced today at the roundtable.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2012

When it comes to financing a brand-new startup, most founders find themselves stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place. When Bob Herman founded Tropolis Group in 2010, he decided to finance with credit cards so he could take advantage of a cash-back rewards program and use the bounty to buy supplies for the business.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems. And you can sign up for the 1M/1M premium program here.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

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. Out of a sudden, both startup founders and investors started asking themselves ‘’ What is our remote strategy?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. Interesting to see Y Combinator revise funding portion of its program … The YC VC Program – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Was the sales revenue model based on actually testing the hypotheses outside the building? No newly hired sales and marketing exec is going to tell a founder, “Hey my prior experience and assumptions may not actually be relevant to this new startup.” Sun workstations were toys for the founders, same with Apples.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Educators are looking for tools and programs to help facilitate their transition into this new learning environment, making affordable to free software key to this niche industry. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you want to supercharge your marketing and accelerate growth and revenue, you’ll love this guide. A chatbot (or bot) is a piece of automated software that engages in a conversation with people. Chatbots are programmed to understand basic questions, provide answers, and execute various tasks.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. My goal for 2020 as a founder is to celebrate the small moments more. As a founder, our community will be my biggest focus in the new year. 5- Celebrate the small moments.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program. We often accept that development schedules for young companies are almost always too optimistic. Email readers continue here.]

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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. Notice that this is a very subjective statement. Some lawyers, even.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Developers. Programming Tutorials. Programming Tools. Custom Programming. 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. Graphic Design Theory.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

There are a whole range of valid reasons why non-developers would want to dictate the production release schedule (Seasonal/timing issues, marketing, fulfillment concerns, documentation/training, revenue controls, legal/regulatory. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Their programs teach software programming and IT proficiency to people who have historically been excluded from those fields, and connects their graduates with tech companies around the country. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Award contract - Negotiate a software development contract.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. And I can even imagine cases where it might burn more cash than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You’re a startup founder, whether actual or aspiring. Business books are a founder’s learning tool. The problem is that the premise of all of them – whether true or false – is irrelevant to you as a startup founder. Find like-minded startup founders and get to know them. Also a student of reading.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

HubSpot has built its brand to over 100,000 customers and $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in 2020. On brand building, Intuit co-founder Scott Cook once said: “A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is, it is what consumers tell each other it is.”. Adoption of loyalty and referral programs. Market share.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Michael is the Founder and CEO of Profound Cloud, an award-winning IT consulting firm that helps businesses save time and money using innovative technologies that make them more efficient. This will cut back a little of your revenue, but will improve your bottom line overall. Our Guest . Show Links. profoundcloud.com.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sometimes it’s because the business grows market-by-market, like Favor, or sometimes it’s that the business needs to grow its sales or programming teams in multiple cities. More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth. Many businesses expand geographically city by city. Department of Defense.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Google Shopping: New Revenue Stream Or More Of The Same? Zappos’ culture coach: how ‘squishy’ stuff like culture took us to a billion dollars in revenue | VentureBeat – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? Google Shopping: New Revenue Stream Or More Of The Same? – [link].

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

The only thing that seemed to be consistent about my growth was that my revenue was relatively flat while my user base kept growing. I asked CrazyEgg co-founder Hiten Shah why they decided to drop their free plan back then. This turned out to be a good move since it doubled their revenue that month. His reason for doing this?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. for Harvard Business Revie.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2016

A flowing sales funnel is crucial in any business, but even more so with SaaS businesses… Unlike other business models, revenue is generated over an extended period of time. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). Monthly Recurring Revenue, or MRR, is a measure of the predictable and recurring revenue of your subscription business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. I pick that example on purpose, for two reasons: 1) most of the companies I work with deal with this problem and yet 2) almost none of them have any kind of training program in place for new employees.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

But aside from these, there are some less obvious areas that we spend countless hours working on (and worrying about) that a single founder with no employees will never do again. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I do enjoy working with awesome developers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) Not even if its generating revenue. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Heres hoping Steve will share those techniques with us someday.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

But aside from these, there are some less obvious areas that we spend countless hours working on (and worrying about) that a single founder with no employees will never do again. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. I do enjoy working with awesome developers.

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