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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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

Let’s face it – you’re probably an excellent salesperson, a great networker and a capable businessman, but software development is a whole other story. If you have a solid proof of concept and aren’t being pressured by investors , then you have more freedom to focus on building a scalable architecture.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

CRM platforms are already firmly ensconced within the sales technology and strategies of most small and midsized businesses. Technology is helping CRM platforms become more sophisticated, and in order for businesses to remain competitive, they must keep pace with their new and emerging capabilities. The power of predictive technology.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

I often hear the qualms of business-smart but non-technical entrepreneurs, wondering if they really have a chance in this high-technology marketplace. I tell them that if their idea or solution is technology intensive, they clearly need technology strength on the team. Then use their insights in questioning other candidates.

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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.

Software 129

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Bunker is a project management and online billing service built by small web application developer Focus Centric that is positioned for use by freelancers and small businesses. St Pierre was looking for a software package that met the needs of a freelancer – he still freelances – and helped manage the steps of a contract process.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

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. Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. New architectures = new attack vectors and security needs to be reimagined.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL. Technology is changing how Nigerians live and do business, quite often in a remarkable way.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Social, Agile, and Transformation. Monday, June 18, 2012.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." LG is licensing the technology and many other device vendors are in the queue.

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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

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Decision Architecture: Helping Users Make Better Decisions – [link]. Design Inspiration: 25 Non-Profit Websites – [link]. 40 Creative Logo Designs Inspired by Fishes – [link].

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blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Every week, I run across many companies who tell me they’re looking for good referrals of software engineers, and particularly those with a good background in web-based or mobile technology. and even bigger, architecture-level talent (particularly software architects who know how to scale a web based service or software).

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Information Architecture 101: Techniques and Best Practices – [link]. FEDTALKS: How To Improve Government With Technology – [link]. Book Covers: 75+ Awesome Designed Books – [link].

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to Atos, a European multinational information technology services and consulting business, $50 billion is invested in FinTech annually. Secure Data Communication Another crucial procedure requires the use of encryption technologies. This blog will be the map of navigating through the rough patches of FinTech cybersecurity.

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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. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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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. They tend to understand the product management side of the product well enough to guide the technology in a complementary way.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 31, 2006

" In other words, most software development opportunities are with consulting firms where employees work on a project basis. Other software jobs are body-for-hire which, once again, is not that interesting and does not provide real upside for the developer. "Let them work on your crown jewels."

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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. We accidently had a product with the Novelty Effect.

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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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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

By letting them learn and play with new technologies from time to time. Part of an engineers desire to solve problems is also a reflection of them wanting to improve themselves by becoming a better developer. They want to work on challenging projects but understand that there will be grunt work that needs to get done.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Instead, they prefer problems that gradually build on themselves and open-ended design and architecture questions. The interview process is pretty standard, though the company shies away from asking puzzle questions that depend on some amount of luck/clicking to get the correct answer. The results. Now, here’s what I discovered.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

He is a great speaker and I enjoyed the speech, but after 40mn, I was still waiting to hear about the future of software. SaaS will give them access to technologies that were accessible only to larger companies in the past, giving them a new edge to compete. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. ▼ 2006. (7).

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

Dr. Zarik Boghossian is a passionate entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience designing and developing advanced technologies and innovative solutions including aerospace systems. with one purpose in mind, and that is to create technology solutions in advanced web and mobile applications that have meaning and can change the world.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

However, we also want to make sure that we can give teams guidance about how to think about these services so that we don’t end up as a large set of mismatched services of vastly different sizes and no cohesive overarching architecture. At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools.

Design 48

Design Software Review Architecture Technical Review 48

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Ultimately, the problem is that if you are trying to learn something about the business, and your technology is meant just to support that experiment, 99% of the time it’s not worth it to do things the “right way.&# they even have a name for it , after having done some real-world experiments + it's context in software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

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]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link].

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2018

Starting my own architecture and interior design firm, Spacesmith, has given me the ultimate creative freedom to come up with an idea, envision an outcome, and then figure out how to make it happen. I decided that it was my opportunity and duty to bring this amazing technology to the world to help preserve it for future generations.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2010

Information Architecture: Enhancing the User Experience – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Check, Please: A Typographic Checklist – [link]. 20 Amazing Book Cover Designs – [link]. I hope you enjoy these links!

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

A "creative guy" looking over the shoulder of a "technical guy" saying "code faster" doesn't get you a company that has developed these capabilities. How many things on this list require technology? Shawn Jackson , President, WaveTech Digital Technolog.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. ability based on one of many technologies. Sjoerd Franken.

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