Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. As an old rule-of-thumb, startups realized that employees cost double the salaries paid, to cover office costs, health-care benefits, and workers compensation.
The Startup Magazine
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. Discuss costs upfront and be sure the talent fits within your budget while still providing you excellent quality. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary.
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The Equity Kicker
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
We see this all the time at Forward Partners where we invest right from the idea stage and most of the companies get a first version of their product live for less than £30k (that generally includes founder salaries and time spent doing customer research).
David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. Then, pluck the low-hanging fruit: easy, low-cost, and highly scalable infrastructure. Customer Development. Organize events in your vertical. Is the service scaleable?
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2013
Visiting each official site took too long, and the information wasn’t always easy to compare (ex: “Net Cost of Attendance” vs. “Resident Tuition per Semester”). We resolved to build out the first dozen comparisons before we started calculating an exact cost per new market. Lean Start-up Connection: Customer Development.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 27, 2014
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. As an old rule-of-thumb, startups realized that employees cost double the salaries paid, to cover office costs, health-care benefits, and workers compensation.
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