Software By Rob

APRIL 22, 2010

I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

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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.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. In the valley or in Boston, lawyers will often *defer* up to $25K until funding in return for 0.5%-1.0%

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I, I literally just wanted a pizza and I was a software developer and so I wrote a version, one of, of a neighborhood delivery guide showed me all the restaurants delivered to me. But that's just part of the rejection of doing sales. Maybe just give us kind of the high level startup to, you know, IPO to now what you're doing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. We set sales targets from day one, $300 the first month. As the experiments progressed, day-in-day-out we werent making sales.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Typically you would search for a term like “inventory software,&# but for our new whizz-bang social media application it all depends on people searching for the longest word in the English language, antidisestablishmentarianism. This approach should help me size the market for companies that are actively looking for software like mine.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

Massive markets that you don’t need to understand to run a software company. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. See you in Boston. #8 Getting Real – Not a business book; a book about building software applications.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

How should one go about pricing their software product? How should one go about pricing their software product? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The Boston Globe – [link]. The interesting science of happiness – [link].

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. In this group, I am the only technical guru with very little industry experience.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

The Sales Rule Most Entrepreneurs Break – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. The New York Times gave away The Boston Globe and other properties (NYT retained pension liabilities) – [link]. Want Loyal Customers?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Creating Urgency in Your Sales Copy – [link]. Is Boston short of angels or good companies? Photoshop Tutorial: Realistic, High quality printer icon – [link]. What Makes A Great Product Leader?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

That’s what I found most attractive about software development: building things. The first was that DevOps changed the world of software. The only way to scale security is to have security built into these development teams’ activities. What attracted you to entrepreneurship, coming out of the 8200 Intelligence Unit?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

But by learning from the experts, making a conscious commitment to social media as a sales or customer service channel and leveraging their inherent flexibility and adaptability as small organizations, SMEs can get it right and reap the benefits. [1] 1] Bigcommerce, The Democratization of Ecommerce, September 2014. [2] 2] [link]. [3]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. This is usually exacerbated by zealous sales persons who oversell the features, or even more typical, promise completely new features. Heres a company I met with recently. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software.

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