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Five Pitfalls to Avoid When Offshoring Software Development

The Startup Magazine

Have you ever looked for software development talent abroad? A popular mistake many business people make when turning to offshore software development talent providers is paying attention to price tags only. 4 Not tuning the communication channels. Source: Pixabay. Offshoring has both light and dark sides.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Do you have legal (Founder Agreement, IP, etc.) What channels will you use (e.g., Team and Process Are you using, or planning to use any software development methodologies? How big is the anticipated development team? Tell me about the business. How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have?

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

Next we teach Distribution Channels (how are you going to sell the product) and Customer Relationships (how do you Get/Keep/Grow customers) and Revenue Streams (what’s the Revenue Model strategy and pricing tactics.) Customer Relationships answers the question, “How will we create demand and drive it to our channel?”

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Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Jason Crane - PhD UCSF Manager Scientific Software Development. It includes reimbursement, regulation, IP, validation, channel access, etc. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Life Sciences , Teaching.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

In this post, I’ll provide an overview of these recent developments as well as a sense of the grand vision I see forming for Lightning around payments and Web3 applications. In contrast to DeFi’s “move fast and break things” attitude, Lightning development has been intentionally slower and more methodical. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. They don't have great marketing channels to those clubs and the faculty don't advocate for participation as part of your education.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But it is fraught with risks - and the primary risk you need to guard against is software development failure. The main causes are: Client fails to precisely express their requirements to the vendor; Client continuously changes their mind during the development process; A poorly constructed development contract.