Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Also a student of reading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

For Alex at Origin , a scheduling and booking platform for outdoor guiding companies, he soon realized that for the company to grow exponentially, they’d need thousands of customers because of how fragmented the market is. Go lean with your planning. This is how you learn to handle rejection because fundraising is difficult.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. He openend with his first issue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2010

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. When I was a software development manager, I tried to get a “bottoms up” time estimate from the team, and then pad it by 50%.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. We now understand that’s wrong.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

About this time a friend and past co-worker approached me asking if I would be willing to work and eventually lead with him on a software development venture. After reading a few books on the topic of entrepreneurship, I began to get excited.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Inspiration: Book Cover Archive – [link]. Beautiful Book Cover Designs for 2010 – [link]. New-to-the-world: strategic marketing for startups and small business – [link].

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Within the first few months of the new year, we look forward to launching our new software and efficiently utilizing the talents and expertise of our events staff. I am a licensed Realtor with a business plan that will catapult my business. I have created a business plan to achieve those goals.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The Focus on Execution Versus Learning and Discovery The product development model assumes that customers needs are known, the product features are known, and your business model is known. Given this certainty, it’s logical that a startup will hire a sales and marketing team to simply execute your business plan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

“your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” Favorite Book Cover Designs of 2012 | NYT – [link]. Ultimate Business Card Design Kit: Tutorials, Templates, Tips & Tricks and a Showcase – [link]. The 10 most read books on Brain Pickings this year – [link]. Quora – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. “ nobody wins if you go out of business&# – On Pricing – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. 90 Beautiful Book Cover Design in Different Style – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

“your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” 20 Exceptional Book Packaging Designs - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 35 Chicken Logo Design Perfect for Poultry Business – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

Our hurdle was to develop our own network of investors and we did this the old-fashioned way: one degree of separation at a time. For instance, the pool of software developers is not as deep here as it is in Silicon Valley, and finding the right people, with the right skill-set can be daunting.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money. Check out my book Like this post? Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong. But it worked for a lot of the dot com’s in the early 2000s. 3,300, here you come.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Whatever kind of business you’re running — whether it’s a retailer, software development firm, restaurant, accounting firm, or manufacturer — it’s imperative to listen to what your customers are really saying when they tell you what they want from your business. I apologize. You’re right.’ That’s all it took.

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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. It was fun watching it happen.

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www.tangosource.com

MARCH 8, 2012

ve pointed people to different books, or made introductions. Executing the non-technical parts of your business plan is a must, but often this translates to providing funding for enough runway for V1 and possibly a major pivot afterwards. Tags: Business. In the past, Iâ??ve re golden. Recruiting. Networking.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. I intend to rewrite my internal 50-page business plan into an investors proposal. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil.

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

   He's also requiring that you source your software development through his consulting company at a price "to be negotiated."  "  Finally, if you fail to agree on a price for the development within 6 months, he gets his money back with 18% interest.  Books I Like.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Once they’re hooked, they’re much more likely to upgrade to one of the paying plans (which allow more projects or pages and gives people access to additional features like file uploading and ssl data encryption).&# In the first few days of my launch I had more people sign up for the paid plan than the free plan.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Books, mentors, advisors, entrepreneurial friends, conferences, dinners, meetups, etc and it’s usually real time meaning you learn what you need today to solve your biggest challenges. Read great books / especially business biographies. How I can find the right investor (software)? No investor cares about a business plan.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. We never even considered that approach. Well, it doesnt.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The biggest risk in our business plan is that we are relying to some extent on time over money, because were self-funded. We know of no-one making a similar product to us, but there are businesses making other kinds of products that would naturally compete for the same money from the same customers, which makes us mutual threats.

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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. NET (and Java) experience are big bright red-flags in my book. I also know numerous other programming languages and have worked with many software development platforms over the last 25 years.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Steve Smith • Nov 8, 2010 I've always thought that a funny thing to do would be to post an ad on Craigslist saying "I'm a rockstar developer who is looking for the next great idea. you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Or reading books.

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