The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

Complicating the development of a useful product is the stringent safety and compliance approval testing that varies based on country and industry. Businesses have a lot to think about when they have a new product idea and one missed step in the product development lifecycle can significantly impact business success.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. You need to build trust between these teams. Practice Agile Development. Their answers are below. Cross Train Members. Build Trust.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2019

It’s easy to come up with ideas for developing a new mobile app, but good ideas are a dime a dozen. Plenty of good app ideas are developed, only to crash and burn. It takes time and planning to develop an app ; it’s not something you can do in a 24-hour power session. Hire a qualified developer.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Two developments have changed the face of startup investing in the UK in recent years. The first development is increased capital efficiency. The second development is SEIS and EIS. However, finding and assessing investment opportunities is still a difficult and time consuming business.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But if you start with realistic expectations for how much it may cost to launch a successful eCommerce store, you’ll be far more likely to succeed. So, before starting an eCommerce business , follow these tips to better plan out your site and accurately budget your startup costs. Budgeting for the initial website build.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

This post, based on our experiences, covers: What misalignment looks like—and what it costs; What alignment looks like—and what you get; Four steps to go from wherever you are now to greater alignment. What misalignment looks like—and what it costs. So how do you get aligned? What people are interested in. Image source ).

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery. More infrastructure development through the construction of airports and ports has led to a huge rise in the demand for international courier delivery services. .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

Automated testing assesses the designed boundaries of your product. Beta testing highlights where potential gaps in technology may develop and gives you a chance to bridge these gaps before going public. Shorter development time. Instead, they can solve real problems based on user feedback and cut down on development time.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the benefits of the cloud is that it gives development teams more agility and flexibility, but with increased flexibility comes the downside of a loss of control and visibility. That said, some large sectors like financial services and healthcare only started to migrate their core workloads and data to the cloud more recently.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. HipChat : ”The dev team uses HipChat pretty extensively for chatting, both one-on-one and group. ” -Evan Coonrod, LivePlan Developer. This is our answer.”

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? How Does it Work?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? How Does it Work?

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Often, executing a flank attack involves developing new technology. Whether you’re considering launching a new business or looking to develop a new product in an established company, you may have a vision of a new technology will that expose a vulnerable flank in an entire industry or against key competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Even a one-second delay can cost an ecommerce site $25,000–$125,000 per year …or more! Work with your team to uninstall resource intensive plugins that aren’t often being used and remove unnecessary scripts. There are other concrete steps that can help you improve your server response without a one-on-one with your dev team.

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Transformify

JANUARY 2, 2021

Review and optimization: even after all the project milestones are reached, it’s necessary to take some time to test and review. At the end of each sprint, there will be a “sprint review” meeting so that the scrum master and the owner of the project could verify that the progress made during the sprint is acceptable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. Running a technology company from a developing country comes with numerous challenges.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

I compare it to parts of Market Muse—but at 1% the cost. You have strategy, content, design, and dev—that’s at least four people. If you’re designing and developing “custom” pages all the time, you’re doing it wrong. Marketers build pages; developers build systems. We did it by meeting developers where they worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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The Next Web

JULY 20, 2013

So you’ve developed your dream app and uploaded it to the market, eagerly waiting for a flood of downloads to propel your product to stardom. But despite announcing it on your Facebook page and getting some positive reviews, you can’t seem to get past 50 downloads a day. Developed a game? and Playscape. Tell a story.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

” After spending some time at the acquiring company, I was hired by Google and eventually was put in charge of the development team that launched AdWords. Our product, a software development and testing tool, was amazingly innovative, worked great, and won a bunch of prestigious awards. Another success.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

One firm had a CTO that was chartered to run a group of developers. The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. A CTO should not manage a hardware team or an infrastructure group.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

If you find you need a developer to work with you, do you reach out to a freelancer or do you call an agency? And when — if ever — do you need to hire your own full- or part-time, in-house dev to work on your website and applications? If you feel like looking for offshore developer talent, you can try Softensity.

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Small Business Technical Review Social Media Software Review 104

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

Many are free while others cost thousands of dollars per month. If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. Prosperworks. ProsperWorks.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy. Nothing can be more damaging than a misleading or careless CTO.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. If we drove revenue above costs, we got to take home a salary. Initially, we tried to run the project by assigning a few developers and part of a product manager’s time with some part-time support from a sales person.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Review the code being built.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I liked that Andy Jenkins and his development team are information marketers themselves, so they know and have experienced what problems info marketers face and have added really cool features specifically for some unique situations. Price could become an issue if you are a heavy user of data.

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