Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Your web developer must have a good knowledge of new technologies emerging in the market that can help them to build better websites. Their tool kit may include well-established, tried, and tested software mixed with unique new custom software developments. Carefully work through these questions when vetting developers.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names. A steep discount may not fit with your business plan and current financial state, but make sure you find some way to compensate your initial believers. Your business’ success depends on a similar feedback loop. Product and culture .

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. Throw in the Zuckerberg at Harvard story--or rather Harvard "losing" Facebook and you wind up with a lot of schools wanting to figure out how the next big business can wind up on campus.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The image above shows the label for Buttface Amber Ale – one of a number of ridiculous beer names in the marketplace (see full post in the Random Fun section below) from huffingtonpost.com. Half of Small Businesses Don’t Have a Website – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link].

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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. The name is a bit misleading - you don't actually have to be young, but your project does. Cap Digital and System@tic are among a number of tech clusters in Paris.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team. Beware, however!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

At their best, these processes provide detailed plans, checkpoints and milestones for every step in getting a product out the door: sizing markets, estimating sales, developing marketing requirements documents, prioritizing product features. So what’s wrong the product development model? BPM vendor (every software vendor!)

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

Business valuation is defined as a way to determine the overall economic value of a company , and is a necessary component of a sound business plan and strategy. Namely, you should never associate asset value with business value. worth $50,000 and another $250,000 in financial backing. This is called a multiple.

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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. You may know it by its final name. And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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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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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Had the Winklevoss Twin and their friend continue, do you realistically believe Facebook (by any other name) would be where it is today? The biggest risk in our business plan is that we are relying to some extent on time over money, because were self-funded. Side note: Those who use Facebook as an example, please be realistic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. In fact, we know so much that we already know what they will care enough about (namely, the product’s quality – as opposed to, say, missing features). Even better, this is a falsifiable hypothesis.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

“your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 16 abbreviated company names explained | The Week – [link]. Doubtliers: Dangers Learning From The Exceptional – [link].

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. This community works best when people use their real names. Please register for a free account.

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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. for Google.co.in) and being hosted inside that country (to name a few). But it worked for a lot of the dot com’s in the early 2000s. Oh wait, no…that’s right, it didn’t.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All you need to know about business to run a startup are commonsense things people knew before there were businessschools, or even universities. If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. Well, it doesnt.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How I can find the right investor (software)? No investor cares about a business plan. Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? If you’re not into business plans, as an investor, how would you decide if a startup is worth investing in (if you do in fact invest in startups)? .

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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. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Mental Pandiculation » Why I Don’t Hang Out With People Named David. This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. Name one widely acclaimed or groundbreaking technology or technique to come out of the.NET realm in the past 5 years?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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