bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

Technical Cofounder 40

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 40

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

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LLC 75

LLC Ruby Social Media Startup 75

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling.

Entrepreneur 235

Entrepreneur Burn Rate SEM Social Network 235

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Build a web presence. salaries or wages for any employees. Build a web presence. The most effective way for creatives to show off their skills and personality is through their web presence. Never forget the power of good old fashioned market research when you’re ready to open your photography business.

Business Plan 64

Business Plan Small Business Administration Social Media Hiring 64

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase. In addition, freelance development requires a lot more mental energy than being a salaried employee. Mental energy that can’t be spent launching your product.

Software Review 53

Software Review Developer RSS Software Developers 53

Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling.

Cost 139

Cost Burn Rate SEM Startup 139

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Expensive software stacks, primitive tools, million dollar server farms, and 50+ person development teams have given way to free, open source, high-quality tools, small teams, and rentable infrastructure. And just when you think it couldn’t get any easier to create software, it does. This is why. Not at all, not even close.

Software 111

Software Open Source Salary Business Model 111

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 21, 2015

At Buffer, not only do they release their employees’ salaries , but they openly display all of their revenue numbers and other financial information as well. Their code is open source. All of their emails are open for everyone else to read. Cheapest web hosting plans” vs “Our monthly plans start from $1.99“.

Marketing 48

Marketing Metrics Salary Virginia 48

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Embrace open source. I’m absolutely amazed by the number of non-technical hiring managers and CEOs who are still wary of open source developers. Open source developers aren’t lazy thieves. The same should be true for open source developers. Bonus tip: About that salary.

Software Developers 152

Software Developers Software Development Software Hiring 152

www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Web Design. Otherwise, you will have to offer actual compensation (read salary) in addition to corporate shares. If you don’t have the money to provide even a reduced salary up-front, find investors. Salaries/Bonuses. MooTools Plugins. Businesses. Business Articles. Accounting. Copywriting Tips. General Business.

Technical Cofounder 41

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review NDA 41

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Print your own collateral and marketing materials until the business is rolling.

SEM 125

SEM Burn Rate Social Network Angel Investor 125

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Do you want them to be producing technology such as happens in the open source world? I’ve got a web product. I mean, it’s one of the reasons why we go to work, we get a salary, why we respond to bonuses, why we get our 10th stamp on our coffee regulars’ card, or you want the air miles at United or Delta.

Community 55

Community Social Media Africa Kansas City 55

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Practically this means that you’ll outsource (most likely off-shore) your design and development, you’ll rent your servers, you won’t have an office and you’ll have no salary. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source. Everything else, you’ll have to pick up yourself and learn as you go along.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. Build a web presence. Build a Web Presence. To learn more about great website design, check out Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices and 7 Modern Web Design Trends for 2019.

Small Business Administration 86

Small Business Administration Small Business Social Media Elevator Pitch 86

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

My starting salary was $27,000. There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. My first job after graduation was with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Expensive software stacks, primitive tools, million dollar server farms, and 50+ person development teams have given way to free, open source, high-quality tools, small teams, and rentable infrastructure. And just when you think it couldn’t get any easier to create software, it does. This is why. Not at all, not even close.

Software 40

Software Open Source Salary Business Model 40

Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Expensive software stacks, primitive tools, million dollar server farms, and 50+ person development teams have given way to free, open source, high-quality tools, small teams, and rentable infrastructure. And just when you think it couldn’t get any easier to create software, it does. This is why. Not at all, not even close.

Software 40

Software Open Source Salary Business Model 40

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

An employee is normally paid a salary or wages. In the second group, you are recruiting from the zillions of people who would voluntarily sign up to work on an open source project. Ive actually heard people say this: "Its like working on open source but it might actually pay off one day!"

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Aside from working at Best Buy.

Software Review 42

Software Review Software Product Salary 42

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants. But most of our users were small, individual merchants who saw the Web as an opportunity to build a business.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup world. While still in college doing freelance web design they realized that there was a need for a faster and less expensive cross-browser testing tool. How’d they do it?

Bootstrapping 78

Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

It lacked the audience my product needed to succeed – the early adopters web hackers looking for the next cool toy to play with. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. During this year they.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

You can go without these expenses for a short time while in startup mode, but if you plan to build a company that’s sustainable in the long-run you’re going to need to cover these expenses before you think about collecting a salary. Please, I beg you, pay someone to design your web site. This one’s your call.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Hosting Salary 52

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

In my previous post, Why Leave A Six Figure Salaried Career For Online Entrepreneurship , I wrote about the various business ventures I have tried and tested over the years. I surfed the web and found many online stores that allowed individual consumers to purchase genuine designer merchandise at much lower prices.

SEO 86

SEO PPC America Search 86

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’m just really sick of how Techcrunch propagates this fairy tale scenario of web startups but spinning this best-case scenario success story as being the guide for others’ success when they really comes down to a number of jackpot background factors. It really needs some rounded corners for that web 2.0

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. By then the open-source movement had really developed. We raised $16.5

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

VC Cafe

JULY 8, 2012

Potential co-founders get to meet the entrepreneurs behind the startup (not the recruiters) and know the equity and salary up front. Cloud computing and open source platform made it much easier for developers to create scalable software without the need for huge infrastructure. 2) Online tools.

Cofounder 149

Cofounder Founder Startup Seed Stage 149

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: in my translation site story, above, the first milestone might be just a plain ugly web page where a company can create an account, create a new project, then upload named documents into that project. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. a foundation.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84