Software By Rob

APRIL 13, 2010

It’s called Startups for the Rest of Us. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. My new podcast launches today. My co-host is Mike Taber, the guy behind SingleFounder.com. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. Before I wrote my first book I spent a few weeks at a University of Michigan seminar on lean product development.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2018

Every day, another app or service is unleashed on the world that claims to increase your productivity, corral your to-dos, or assassinate your procrastination. Keeping track of these products can be a full-time effort on its own, never mind figuring out what they do and if they’re right for you. Brain.fm / Noisli / Coffitivity.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Some organizers don’t actually know—and they just decided to invite any random VC, software developer, or founder—hence their really boring, generic questions. It will cause people to completely turn off for the rest of the talk. also forces them to think about the same. 2) Think about the “Why” behind moves you make.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make. We did that for a lot of reasons.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit. Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. You must have a passion for the problem and a love for building great products. You need your minimum viable product (MVP), you need to show how you’re better than competitors , you need good leadership skills, and you need traction. Make sure you have a great product that solves a problem.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

All the ingredients for Indian SaaS dominance are here: From producing some of the world’s best developers to competing on cost and producing quality products of global standard. Only one decade ago, SaaS products accounted for less than five percent of software. Take it back to the 90s. Employers and employers.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. The innovation sector differs from other industries in how it generates profits.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Product Optimization is a hot topic. However, many people confuse optimization with product discovery. I have another article coming soon that discusses how we use live-data prototypes and A/B testing for product discovery. However, this is not product optimization. It can provide real value to teams.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Product naming is hard. The Approach A while back Patrick contacted a handful of Academy members and asked for opinions on potential product names. Regarding the product name, which was the original purpose of the survey, a list of 40 names was given to each respondent was asked to choose up to 3 names. It’s addictive.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Delivery of code/product that clearly has not been tested. No communication between developers. Developers are very quite when bugs, features, changes are being discussed and only come back with questions later. One of your better developers leaves. Software development is challenging. Massive overtime.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Resting on your laurels with IP strategy and not having an IP programme may result in missed opportunities and increased business risk. THE OBJECTIVES OF AN IP PROGRAMME ARE TO: 1) Help maximise value from the products and innovations created, 2) Reduce business risk by reducing the prospect of infringing the IP of others, and.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The Micropreneur Academy Product Showcase is a place to showcase these products (currently eight are listed – there are at least that many not yet added). I will be adding many more in the coming months as members launch their products and request to be included in the showcase. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Apple manufactures products, owns retail stores and also has an open platform for developers to build and sell apps that makes the products Apple sells even more desirable. Is there other software that does this? Uber and Airbnb take a fee for connecting buyers and sellers of transportation and lodging respectively.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

The software development landscape has changed a lot in that time, but time-honored principles remain so. Here’s my take on an updated Joel Test for 2017, based on my career experience and how we build software at VidiGuard. Can all of a product's features be verified in one step? Discussion of the rest follows.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

For the bigger firms it is hard to separate how they’re doing in this space from the rest of their b business, but Appian and Pega offer a closer view to the progress in Intelligent Process Automation because it represents a bigger portion of their business. Our team consistently builds great products for our clients, with Camunda.

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Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

Switzerland Average salary: $69,641 Switzerland is famous for its incredible Alpine landscape and its production of luxury watches, indulgent chocolate and delicious cheese. Switzerland has the highest cost of living in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The organizations that do manage to keep up are further driving change by redefining the technology landscape around their platforms, causing the rest to fall even further behind. Before Tasktop, I spent a decade building open source software development tools. Tell us about your products and services.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2011

Sounds obvious; I want to take it a step further, like this: Ignoring most of your potential market , how are expert, power-users doing this today, without your software? Here’s how this gets your marketing and software design off the ground. Photoshop is a great illustration of a product designed to this extreme. (A

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. There are many analogies here for software development.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A finalist in Augmented and Virtual Reality , which will pitch at 3:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Tunnelware is a product of DigitalTwin Technology, founded in Cologne, Germany, which aims to create digital twins of civil infrastructure. What have you found most essential to communicate about your product?

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. It’s equal access to jobs and diversity of thought that add value to the business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you down. They’re turning you into Microsoft.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. The interesting part is when you get a couple months into your product cycle.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. I’m asked pretty regularly about the best way to start a physical product e-commerce site, or whether that’s a good way to get started selling online.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Find The Thing You’re Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life – [link]. Creative product designs #11 | Designskilz – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. In these final weeks, they have to dig deep.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions. In these final weeks, they have to dig deep.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It was just such a joy to develop things. Then in 1991 I came up with a product for developers that turned out to be important enough to build a company around. I’ve been married for 22 years now and when I had my first company I just assumed I would run that company for the rest of my life and keep doing software development.

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

Startup Marketing Advice, “Failure,&# Things I Learned the Hard Way, and more… → Transitioning from Developer to Software Entrepreneur Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. 95% of developers are comfortable, and probably excel at, being technicians.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 24, 2014

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Japanese Web Design stands out from the Rest - crowdspring.co/Ly5GyB. Brands Crowdsource Product Shoots via Instagram | Mashable - crowdspring.co/1cUSNnV.

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