Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

It took Joel awhile to realize that “If you’re hiring very bright people, let them do their damn job&#. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Spolsky: The era of software was a narrow period of time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. The Perpetually Vexing Problem of Hiring Programmers – [link]. Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link].

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

is an AI-powered log analysis platform that offers the open source ELK Stack as an enterprise-grade cloud service with machine learning technology. Provides real-time access to data insights based on the collaborative knowledge of system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers throughout the world.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 4 Reasons People Subscribe to — and Open — Email – [link]. Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link].

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Mark Walsen Mark Walsen Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I think you would be better off hiring people, rather than trying to convince them to work for free in exchange for equity. But it is a start-up in the sense of making a big quantum step forward in the marketplace. The key here is motivation.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? World class In-house UX is one of the most challenging hires you’ll make. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. He basically outsources everything.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. And just because a company gets the FDA to clear their device/diagnostic/software doesn’t mean they’ll get paid for it. Today consumers pay directly for the Watch.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense. Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. 4 Inflecto [Software Developers] on 01.08.09

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. Theonly kind of software you can build without studying users is the sort for which you are the typical user.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If the idea was reliant on ad revenue for profit, it quickly becomes apparent that there will be no incoming money at all. Do an initial financial projection based on competitors’ prices, your development costs, and the advertising costs to see if your product is financially viable. At this point, everyone loses.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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