Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

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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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

JULY 16, 2019

Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics. In average, the hourly rate for software engineering services reaches $47 per hour. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

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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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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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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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.” ” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. operates at seven 9s reliability.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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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. Others that are heavier on development. So here are some thoughts on selecting the right firm. Some will have some specific skill sets.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Our part of the initiative was great: we had built out pioneering eClosing for mortgages, online document delivery and uploads, a sophisticated document generation system, efficient and accurate document imaging and indexing, but the rest of the project failed.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

Plus, starting an online business of course has it’s costs, but with a multitude of solutions out there (with Subbly being one of them) you don’t need to spend thousands on software development or marketing to validate your business idea. And rest assured that any young entrepreneur with a vision will not miss that opportunity.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Activities are the key things you need to do to make the rest of the business model (value proposition, distribution channel, revenue) work. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc.

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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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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Solve the rest later. Alex understood he knew next to nothing about software development and engineering, so he searched for an engineer. Your startup becomes irrelevant. Instead, focus on the problem you want to solve. Talk to the people who are experiencing the problem, and then build your solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 9, 2021

Anchoring yourself to a secure job that you can depend on for the rest of your professional life used to be a popular option. From cybersecurity and web design, all the way to software development and beyond, venturing into the tech field is a good way to future-proof your career.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

Let’s explore why India is set to grow in the SaaS sector, what it means for both employers and employees and what the rest of the world needs to know about it. Therefore, software does not need to be bought at one expensive price, but rather rented in affordable monthly installments reducing the friction to use SaaS.

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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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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Tools, especially broader tools like programming languages, come with a lot of baggage, an attitude or even a philosophy on software development. For example, we picked Clojure for our development work. The main driver for that is the degree to which it will impact how the rest of your software is written.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2024

“Apptimistic” – Apptimistic is a No-Code software development agency. ” I wanted to create a positive anticipation specifically related to the potential success or impact of software applications. And the rest is history. Either by combining two words or slightly tweaking a common name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills.

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Transformify

APRIL 19, 2018

In the past, I have written about how important networking can be for your chances of finding a job as a software developer. This is especially true for developers looking for remote jobs since their options are much more limited (although growing). In fact, up to 80% of the jobs are filled through networking. Focus on that.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Developers are very quite when bugs, features, changes are being discussed and only come back with questions later. One of your better developers leaves. No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2018

Here in Canada, we know innovation and inclusion go together and the rest of the world has taken notice. These include relevant tech segments, such as AI, automated and connected vehicles, data, security, design, investment, software development, marketing, music, and sustainability. Collision Conference Toronto Location.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the world’s largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GM’s technology. I first met Tony Fadell, co-founder and CEO of Nest, in the summer of 1991.

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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. One of my clients was concerned enough about this to set up a ‘clean room’ for a new software development project. Being strategic with your intellectual property (IP) can be really important.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 22, 2012

If we just chose one or the other, we could optimize the rest of the business around it — hiring, automation, marketing, sales — and maybe we should. In other words, exactly the problems of “selling the middle” — with small-blogger budget meets big-blogger problems.

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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. growing from $10B in 2021 to $13B in 2023. There are big incumbents in this space?—?IBM,

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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. the rest of the time. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. A (Very) Brief (and Selective) History in Computing. It was a terrible user experience.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Apple, Facebook and Salesforce have done this by offering APIs (application programmer interfaces) and SDKs (software development kits) so that people can build apps that extend the platform and make it even more compelling. Is there other software that does this? Customer intimacy. Obsessive curation of the brand experience.

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Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

Compared to the likes of Switzerland and Iceland, the cost of housing and living in Sweden is more affordable, but it's still far more expensive than most of the rest of the world. The tech sector here is thriving, with software development managers being one of the country's best-paid roles.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Keeping 3-6 projects going year-round is a full-time job in itself — a job resting on your shoulders. It gives us an advantage in consulting because it accelerates our development and enhances our sales pitch. Billable hours trump product development; it’s always second-class, so you get a second-class side-project.

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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. Discussion of the rest follows. It’s been over 16 1/2 years since the Joel Test was published.

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