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Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything

SoCal CTO

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. SEO for Startups )? Administrators?

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? SEO Support Will URLs and page content need to be properly formed for SEO? What back-end support for SEO is needed? Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team?

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. PHP Developer at Ultra Logistics (Fai. SEO Specialist at Empirecovers.com (J.

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Startup Development

SoCal CTO

I’ve come to realize that I have lots of posts around startup software development scattered around in different posts. Thought it would be good to capture them in one spot and also include links to related posts from other sources.

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3 Things You Need To Be Aware Of When Calculating A Budget For An App Like Etsy

YoungUpstarts

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. Hourly rate.

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Brittleness comes from “One Thing”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Examples: large bidders tripled the cost per click, Google’s SEO algorithm changed, the event organizers changed the rules or stopped doing the event, the link-sharing site became irrelevant, the hot blog lost its traffic, the magazine running the ads finally failed.

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Why “saving money” and “ROI” are probably the wrong way to sell your product

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Code Collaborator is tool which helps software developers review each other’s work, just like an editor of a book. So the economics are obvious: If two developers would each normally spend an average of 30 minutes on a code review, once a day, that’s 20 hours of total time in a business-month. And we did.