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How To Launch A Profitable Custom Software Development Startup

The Startup Magazine

There are several effective steps to launch a profitable custom software development startup. In today’s innovative digital ecosystem, you can establish a powerful software development company, even if you do not have a previous technical background. Conduct Market Research. Hire A Team Of Software Developers.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. Luckily Harold Jarche pointed us to other discussion on open source models.

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How Software Developers Really Spend Their Time

readwrite.com

It was definitely surprising," said Ashish Kuthiala, Electric Cloud’s director of marketing. When I was a software engineer, I remember losing time to meetings when I’d rather be coding. Some open-source software claims to do something similar. Is there any way to shorten those waits, or even avoid them altogether?

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.

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IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2)

Austin Startup

In the last post , we started with this chart, and we focused on RPA (the bright blue at the bottom of the bar chart), the most explosively growing enterprise software category I’ve ever seen. And so we’ll see RPA firms push into process context in various ways, each according to their own vision for the market.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit. This lecture order was embedded in the Udacity Lectures , the syllabi and educators guide I open-sourced. That works for almost all markets.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Each of these three concepts demands extensive consideration in the specific context of the project and the organization as a whole.