Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But first… There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. The art of good management.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse. years of software development.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Technology platforms, development paradigms, and the vendor landscape have been shifting at a rate that very few organizations have been able to keep up with. The organizations that do manage to keep up are further driving change by redefining the technology landscape around their platforms, causing the rest to fall even further behind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

There are many books written on this subject, but this classic by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen. Contractors and freelancers, like any other business, manage their own internal processes, but they can’t manage your business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

In his new book “ People Over Process: Leadership for Agility “, technology expert Michael K. Levine was an early proponent of agile and is a veteran of systems change and technology management. I’ve spent my career doing large-scale high impact technology management for major US institutions. What’s your main focus?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

You won’t find that written in a science book, but it’s true! After that, he spent five years working for a tiny software development firm in Jacksonville Beach. He spent five years as a worldwide rollout manager for a large corporation in Denver, Colorado, as a result of this role.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

They are collective punishment for the misdeeds of an individual” With excerpts like that, you can be sure that “ Rework ” by founders of 37Signals Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson isn’t an ordinary book on entrepreneurship. Perhaps the most radical chapter in the book was the one on hiring.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 11, 2021

Since releasing my newest book The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors I’ve been continually getting the questions “Why Philosophy and Entrepreneurship?” We planned to use smart yet inexpensive software developers to build business application software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

There are many books written on this subject, but a recent one by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen. Contractors and freelancers, like any other business, manage their own internal processes, but they can’t manage your business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

Many smaller companies that provide creative services struggle every day to manage their capacity and their overhead. Other months, when business is slow, managers are left trying to keep their employees occupied and struggle to make the books balance. Marketing 101: channel management and the digital domain.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

Scrum is a lightweight agile process framework used primarily for managing software development. Few authors have published books which provide a structured framework of scrum to implement in non-software projects. Works well with fast-moving development projects. SCRUM METHODOLOGY. CONCLUSION.

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Berkonomics

JULY 12, 2018

Senior management is usually prepared with an answer, and a good discussion of resource availability and application follows. More than occasionally, this questioning leads the manager or CEO to realize that he or she is the bottleneck through having created a hub-and-spoke decision process, with that person at the center of each process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

I’ve been very blessed to have had a 22-year career at Intuit where I held various product roles from software developer on QuickBooks for DOS to offering leader on QuickBooks Connected Services. Jeff and I have shared all of these lessons in our new book The Intrapreneur’s Journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

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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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

One of the respondents said they called it a “Desperate marketing attempt—everybody just tries to book a meeting, try to generate sales qualified opportunities and they don’t have results.” In 2020 we applied the same approach to two of our customers: idronect (software to manage drone businesses) and Opsfleet (software development company).

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Software By Rob

JULY 20, 2010

While on paternity leave this week I read seven books. I have a list of around 20 bullet points I took away from this book, which is a solid task list for me to mull over in the coming months. Check out my book Like this post? But books are vastly subjective! It’s painfully bad. I recommend it. 2 Dustin on 07.25.10

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Software By Rob

JULY 16, 2009

→ Two Must-Read Books for Micropreneurs Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Bob Walsh’s new book The Web Startup Success Guide comes out next week. I picked up Pamela Slim’s book Escape from Cubicle Nation a few weeks ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

There are many books written on this subject, but one just last year by Chris Ducker, “ Virtual Freedom ,” manages to pack a lot more practical guidance into a small space that many others I have seen. Contractors and freelancers, like any other business, manage their own internal processes, but they can’t manage your business.

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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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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 2, 2009

I’m really into saving time, and one way I’ve found to do that is to skim books, or listen to them as abridged audiobooks when I’m on the road. In line with this, about a year ago I found an awesome collection of summaries of the best marketing books ever (in the opinion of the book’s editor).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Espousing that borrowing money and debt are optional, the book proposed that entrepreneurs starting such businesses were more interested in the lifestyle it offered rather than making oodles of cash. Let me cover the salient points of the book. The key is to spend 50% of your business development time on creating.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s difficult to be an entrepreneur — whether you’re a recent college graduate or have managed multiple companies. 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.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 16, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I Need Your Help! Which Book Would You Be Most Likely to Buy? But Management and Marketing ? Check out my book Like this post? Nah, it’s the velocity thing.

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out → I’m Writing a Book: “Start Small. Stay Small. Start Small.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Project/ Product Management.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 15, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Terror of Firsts Podcast Ranked #13 in iTunes: Management and Marketing → I Need Your Help! Which Book Would You Be Most Likely to Buy? Check out my book Like this post?

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. But we investors often allow too little slack in our estimates as well.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Should You Build or Buy Your Micro-ISV? I’m in a Book! sent) October 11th, 2008 | Software Development Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 11, 2018

In just 18 months his platform has grown to more than 70,000 users and booked more than 300,000 appointments. I got a job as a software developer at Wells Fargo, and a few months later moved to Charlotte, NC. Our mobile app lets clients book appointments with their baber 24/7 at their own convenience.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2010

As I’m spending a lot of time these days talking with first time and young entrepreneurs around the release of my book Do More Faster , I thought this would be a fun interview to add to the mix. And, if you are a software developer using Lean or Agile methodologies, take a look at Rally and AgileZen.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Thanks to Olivia Summerhill, Summerhill Wealth Management ! #2- The publishing industry, and especially the children’s book publishing industry, are extremely set in their ways, having created and sold many of the same books for decades, via the same channels (many big publishers don’t even sell their books online!).

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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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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. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. We were able to crank out software code at a much greater pace than was ever possible for. Data, data, data.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

Now that you’ve managed to escape Peter’s situation, make sure you don’t replace it with an entirely new set of hassles that you can’t do anything about. Like risks, they’re not necessarily bad—just something to be managed. Managing hassle may take the form of putting your reputation on the line to get someone to partner with you.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Book Review: Finding a New Career that Values Your IT Knowledge The Software Product Myth → I’m in a Book! The book hit the shelves last week. 2 Rob on 11.17.08

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