Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

He moved out to Colorado to attend CU Boulder, starting a degree in Architecture only to find out he was more passionate about Business. Entrepreneurs have to get really comfortable with rejection, especially as a first-time founder. This is what most founders do. Solve the rest later. Become comfortable with rejection.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations. It is just really hard to found a technology company successfully with only one founder, technical or non-technical.

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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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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

Still there are some common signals / symptoms that I hear about from Founders/CxOs in companies that are the reason they are calling me. But please: Just because your development team has these symptoms does not mean that you have a weak development team. No communication between developers. No one owns architecture.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

There will also be the few new SaaS app founders who have incredible domain expertise reinventing pieces of the old guard public SaaS companies. We are at the beginning stages of one of the biggest IT shifts in history as legacy workloads in the enterprise continue to move to a cloud-native architecture. Serverless technologies….

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems. Toward that end, they have created two products.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development. A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The Unexpected Compensation Trends of Post-Series A Startup Founder/CEOs – crowdspring.co/1iu3ukT. Why Our Brains Love Curvy Architecture | Co.Design - crowdspring.co/HarJcD. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

From Prototype to Community: Forrst Founder Kyle Bragger Shares His Startup Journey – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Here’s an interesting exercise: find a startup or microISV founder and ask the following: What are the top 3 approaches you use to find customers? Most startup founders think about driving traffic to their website. Most founders think: drive more traffic! Almost no one thinks about improving conversion rates. Why is this?

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

From a development and operations perspective, the common element in successful software businesses seems to be the technical leader. They tend to have the knack for architecture. Surely there are some business and technology strategy problems youre going to need help with that your lead developer cant help you answer.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. Or founders who want the impossible done as of yesterday.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Someone who has some background in software engineering and is qualified to write production code without much supervision, although they probably arent designing anything. This person will be expected to learn the software development lifecycle practices, methods, conventions, and standards of the computer industry.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. steve MIchael W. , This actually is not entirely accurate.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

As the Head of the Technology and Professional Services at Integrien, Zarik worked closely with other executives and investors at Clearstone Ventures to create an attractive enterprise level software solution which was successfully acquired by VMware, Inc. Later in his career, Zarik founded Zema Enterprises, Inc. ” Show Links.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Both sides start to think of their point of view in moralistic terms: “those guys don’t see the economic value of fast action, they only care about their precious architecture diagrams&# or “those guys are sloppy and have no professional pride.&# Why do software developers think this is acceptable?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

The Cloud has simplified and accelerated time to development, Big Data has made applications smarter and more predictive, and Microservices are changing the way we think about our application architecture. Needless to say, it’s a fun time to be a software developer. But, as with every revolution, new problems emerge.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

10 things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say - [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. 10 steps to a perfect logo - [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? Building a good application architecture is not just coding. Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions.

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Software By Rob

JULY 14, 2009

The roadblock that so many entrepreneurs encounter as they try to launch is thinking they, or one of their co-founders, has to perform every task necessary to get their product out the door. Outsource your product architecture? Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2009

You can be completely focused on building your product, and still lose large amounts of time trying to perfect your architecture, or learn some new framework to use within your application. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. I saw that 37signals had hidden theirs. 54 Ruben on 08.20.10

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years. Look what happened to Gawker. March 25, 2011 at 3:23 pm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. The engineering team has decided its reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it up to modern standards, including unit tests, getting started with continuous integration , and a new MVC architecture. Doesnt that sound good?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

Julius Talvik is co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Unison , a brand innovation company in Washington, DC, that develops physical and digital products for companies around the world. The difference, it was believed, between a “good” user experience and “bad” one was the difference between a company’s success and its failure.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Doing so does not take advantage of a software developers experience.

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