Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. Manpower to develop all of these applications, manpower to maintain them, and manpower to deal with all of these devices, which added great complexity to our IT environments.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

The Startup Success Podcast – After the demise of The Micro-ISV Show, Bob Walsh is back discussing issues affecting software startups. Open Source, For-Profit Startups – “FairSoftware is the place to start and grow your online business. We help you team with others, track revenue and share it openly and fairly.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 Despite that, it’s also hard to ignore the following facts: Enormous spend and growth for public cloud and app infrastructure, middleware and developer software of $50b (Gartner, Pivotal S-1). Rise of multi-cloud.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The speaking line-up is a who’s who of software bloggers and authors, including Geoffrey Moore, Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah and Joel Spolsky. There were several great presentations during the conference.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Github is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, a revision control system. What's also fueling this growth in collaborative software is the slow death of the big corporation. That is the very month that Facebook became the largest social network, outpacing MySpace.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. > 14,000 public nodes . >

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . I like that.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. This analysis on Facebook open sourcing data center/hardware seems to miss the point – [link]. In France, the decline was – 4% [link].

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. event I did last fall.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins – [link]. Rice University And OpenStax Announce First Open-Source Textbooks – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 50 Time-Saving Web Design – Developer Tools | Designmodo – [link].

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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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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Unfortunately they will be very expensive (30-50% or more of gross revenue).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

We're thinking of going open-source — it's free. You: Open-source is free like puppies are free. See, we don't line our pockets with that revenue, we spend it making you maximally effective. When you have a problem, we connect you directly with developers instead of hiding behind off-shore Level 1 support.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Now Adriana has an epiphany?:

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. It is about when in the life of your company you do the spending. Lets see why. Something else?

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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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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. I build apps all the time, how hard could it be to launch a product?

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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. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. Your projections should provide a range of best-case/worst-case revenue scenarios over a number of years.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Thats nonsense.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names. Please register for a free account.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right. The pilot program allowed nine companies , including Apple, to begin developing products (like the Watch) using this regulatory shortcut.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more.

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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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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Cybersecurity unicorn Snyk was founded in 2015 with the mission to help developers make their code secure. Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. These rules are explicitly coded into a program using a software language (Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, …). Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. Classic Computers- Hardware.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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