Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

For businesses planning to expand overseas or hire internationally, it's important to be aware of average salaries to understand the expectations of prospective candidates. Engineering and tech are also excellent industries to work in to achieve high salaries. The country also has very low unemployment rates.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2012

Looking at a different example; in the context of software development (or simply Internet websites), product managers will often create detailed personas of typical customers which then help inform subsequent decisions made when developing the application. This is not necessarily a bad thing.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. NextView Ventures: Did you start to seriously work on the idea during business school or after?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) 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.

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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. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well. 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. Try Google. Beware, however!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. Startups: You Should Value Software More | by Wade Foster – [link]. The Business Plan. eBay, The FBI, Shawn Hogan And Brian Dunning | Business Insider – [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. Questions to Ask Potential Cofounders: The Master List | Founder Dating - [link]. Business Plans Are an Historic Artifact | WSJ – [link]. How Facebook’s Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind | Wired – [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product. All of this is usually a bad idea.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Goals, Strategies and Tactics (why startups & small business should pay attention to all 3) – [link]. New-to-the-world: strategic marketing for startups and small business – [link].

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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. This provides the most accurate results for people using that search engine. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine. Good luck ranking in every Google search engine. Bad news for you.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies. E= in English).

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

But what about other kinds of business books? I was on paternity leave a few weeks ago and I had time to catch up on reading a long list of books that have sat stacked on my desk for months. Massive markets that you don’t need to understand to run a software company. Or Proctor and Gamble. Or Panasonic.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The plethora of mentorship opportunities for entrepreneurs is mind-boggling — programs like TechStars and Mass Challenge , not to mention myriad business-plan contests. Our unemployment rate is high, yet the job boards of local venture-capital firms show hundreds of job listings across their portfolios.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list? Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The list goes on and on. You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. Get a grip.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I think the reason I made such a mystery of business was that I wasdisgusted by the idea of doing it. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. Thats nonsense.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

He , Srikanth Narayan , Ben Werdmuller von Elgg , Jo Vi Ko , Justin Lee , Giovanni Tardini , David de Weerdt , Vineet Thanedar , Ryan Brideau , Jonathan Meiri , Rob Weedn , Krzysztof Kowalczyk , Greg Pilling , Kevin Leland , Parham Michael Ossareh , Dan Loewenherz , Mary Specht , Engin Erdo?an "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. Think about that, people wont even steal your ideas if you give them the plans. From "Think and Grow Rich".

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Gather your market research, your business plan, and your prototype and make your presentation to potential CTOs. Salaries/Bonuses.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something. How I can find the right investor (software)? Should I require and NDA?

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