Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. I had no idea what people did whether tech, entertainment, or design. President of The Tech Museum. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). In any case, the valley is small.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. And these days with how easy it is to build an application, your code isn’t worth much, either. This hurts me as much as anyone since I’m a developer. No one cares about your idea.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

making technical recruiting suck less. I ran technical recruiting at TrialPay for a year before going off to start my own agency. Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. Aline Lerner's Blog. Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. Anyway, let’s dive into this topic more, starting with technical debt. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. Let’s be honest, building an invoicing system does not involve insanely complex algorithms and coding chops. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Why software startups decide to patent … or not – [link]. Why An MBA Could Kill Your Chance To Become A Great Tech Entrepreneur – [link]. Interesting perspective on why New York City could never compete in tech – [link]. The Key to Non-Profit Website #Design : An Attempt for a Cause – [link].

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, and Design. I had no idea what people did whether tech, entertainment, or design. President of The Tech Museum. CEO of a software development outsourcing firm (Ukraine). In any case, the valley is small.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This episode’s Micropreneur is Ruben Gamez who recently launched online design proposal software Bidsketch. == Rob: Thanks for your time today, Ruben. It’s a SaaS (Software as a Service) based application that offers free and paid plans. Rob: When & why did you decide to build and launch your own software product?

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Before You Pitch To A Technical Cofounder.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The product or website (be it software, e-commerce, or a service) might be awesome , but if it puts itself in front of the wrong market, or packages itself so the right market can’t figure out why it’s awesome, the startup will fail. Most startups fail. Phase 3 – Concierge.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

When Reviewing A New Idea, Never Forget Its First Impression – [link]. It’s no secret that visitor data measured by Alexa, Compete and others is flat our wrong – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

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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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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The Findings Five days later Patrick had 250 responses and enough information to decide on a name, but let the survey run because he was receiving solid information from the other (non-naming) survey questions, as well as leads who were interested in being notified when the app launched. Check out my book Like this post?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To illustrate the extent to which a company’s name is largely irrelevant to its ultimate success, let’s examine the genesis of six successful technology companies’ names. Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. For more on my story and the purpose of all this, visit the about page.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. Years later I’ve realized that the single most important factor to a product’s success is not the founders, not the marketing effort, and certainly not the software itself. “That’s ridiculous!&#

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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

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The product or website (be it software, e-commerce, or a service) might be awesome , but if it puts itself in front of the wrong market, or packages itself so the right market can’t figure out why it’s awesome, the startup will fail. Most startups fail. Phase 3 – Concierge.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Massive markets that you don’t need to understand to run a software company. Hit Meetup.com for starters, and search Facebook for other tech entrepreneurs in your area.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? The programming language is important because we provide the source code with every purchase…which created one heck of a mess for us a few weeks back.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. The technical side is fairly easy, and many people could do it.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

These are the tasks that will be easiest to outsource – the tasks that require a technical or common skill that’s not specific to your product. Start with non-critical tasks and be very specific in how they should be executed. I would guess you will enjoy learning the technical aspects more than outsourcing them.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. When he’s not developing software, he’s furiously working towards becoming a better Micropreneur. while the paid ones want features focused its core competency and more integration options. at 10:31 am [.]

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